Arts

For those in the Minnesota-born Winstead’s orbit, it’s not surprising that she rose from a politically minded standup to an activist leader. “She’s just one of those — you meet them throughout...

Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man who bought his freedom after winning the lottery, tried to organize a slave rebellion in Charleston, S.C., 1822, making plans to execute white enslavers and sail...

Between the air raid sirens, amid updates from the front, there grows what saves. “​​I had the feeling in the first days, and even now, that there was sand in my mouth...

AMSTERDAM — There were 35 known self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh in the world. That appears to have changed this week.“To that number, we can add now another picture,” Louis van Tilborgh,...

Jerome M. Eisenberg, a leading New York antiquities dealer who in the murky world of tomb raiders and smugglers held himself up as a guardian against the illegal importation and sale of...

Near the beginning of “Earwig,” the latest trip down the darkest of rabbit holes by the French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, a 10-year-old girl admires a landscape painting, seated before it in an...

“His role model was P.T. Barnum,” Ms. Sprinkle, who for several years let him use her New York apartment to give illegal tattoos, said in a phone interview. “He loved to put...

WASHINGTON — Robert Adams photographs the landscapes of the contemporary American West, no matter how degraded, with the loving attention that his artistic forebears, Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Carleton E. Watkins, bestowed...

Dance/NYC, a nonprofit organization that promotes knowledge and appreciation of dance in New York City, is on a mission to count every dance worker — from choreographers to ballet teachers to Colombian...

Mathematics is different. When Wilkinson doesn’t grasp a detail in a problem, he knows that he is missing something foundational. Sure, over the course of the year he may have obtained what...