Poland marks 175 years since the birth of Aleksander Gierymski (1850-1901), a seminal 19th-century painter credited with ...

Cozy streets, medieval buildings, and traditional crafts – the city has preserved its cultural heritage and incredible charm ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize ...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" to William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." She stunned in Eugene ...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” She stunned i ...

1. Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s biography of the Tuscan merchant Francesco Datini. “Always ...

Lithuania’s then-Culture Minister Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s classic ...