In the current political landscape, signs are emerging indicating that Europe is waking up, the cooperation between Ukraine ...

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Starmer’s poor political instincts are often explained by his background in the law and the Crown Prosecution Service. The same is said of Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England. But this argument does ...

Early on in Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” Leni Riefenstahl says that she believes the opposite of politics is art. “If you feel things intensely as an artist … you live your life so ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.

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Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

The man responsible for Bryant Park’s transformation was Dan Biederman, a protege of the urban planner William “Holly” White ...

Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us ...

MY search for the original meaning of the term "useful idiots" has been rewarded. I first encountered the term while listening to a podcast on YouTube by "China Unscripted"; one panelist remarked ...