Societal breakdown, whether real or imagined, can lead to dramatic responses — like blood-sucking vampires.

In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.

Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.

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The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.

Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.

Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.

Although the statue’s political connotations faded over time, its eyes remain fixed on a key moment in Florentine history.

The German artist painted death as it appeared in life – omnipresent and hidden in plain sight.

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"The name's Bond. Jane Bond."

Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.

The Russian writer’s scorn went beyond a difference in taste; Leo Tolstoy virulently hated everything Shakespeare had come to stand for.

This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.

This freshly unearthed image drastically alters the meaning of one of the artist's most celebrated works.

The world is full of great mysteries. This is one of them.

Russian movies continue to be used as a mouthpiece for the country's political leadership.

Some intellectuals use charisma and deception to obscure the holes in their arguments. Here is how to see through their smokescreen.

Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.

Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.

The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." Here's how they did it.

Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.

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A machine learning system lets visitors at a Kandinsky exhibition hear the artwork.

Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?

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