A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Moses Bliss, Ngozi Ezeonu, and Brain Jotter, among others arrived in Ghana for the traditional wedding of Deacon Famous. The groom shared moments from the event.

Speaking at the Toyin Falola Interviews panel on the theme Biography Writing: Promises and Perils, Okediran noted the lack of comprehensive biographies on key African figures. He highlighted that ...

A new study explores the portrait practice of Beale, the most famous of the early female professional painters in Britain ...

"The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies" takes an in-depth look at the position of first lady. While many books exist to tell the story of individuals, the new work examines the job from ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the director of the biopic devoted to the opera singer looks back over the last few years.

Before entering politics and media, Lara Trump worked as a producer and coordinator for the television program Inside Edition ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

From movies to activism speeches, iconic quotes have been misquoted and misremembered for years. From the famous figures of ...

When Jessie Burton published The Miniaturist in 2014, it became the fastest-selling debut of the decade, shifting over a ...