Oscar Wilde, the celebrated Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, was a master of wit and social commentary. Beyond his well-known plays, Wilde penned a range of prose that continues to ...

Aestheticism sought to break away from rigid historical styles and artistic hierarchies.

Zou Yuhan, an actor from the Hubei Provincial Opera Institute, performs Han Opera. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn] When mentioning the Peking Opera, a few key words come to mind for most ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Nottingham chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. How is it that 88 million euros were stolen in a matter of seven ...

That there has been a direct relationship between religion and the arts is evident from primitive times. Men have used statuary, chants, paintings, and places of worship to objectify and house his ...

The word “relevant,” I was recently surprised to discover, shares an etymology with the word “relieve.” This seems obvious enough once you know it—only a few letters separate the words—but their ...

As a brightly shining singular star, Chitra nakshatra epitomizes the general characteristics of creation & its varying facets, depth, brilliance, aestheticism, prosperity, intuition, illusion and the ...

This scarf titled "The Liberty Stage" was created to celebrate Liberty’s 150th anniversary and incorporates decorative elements from the Mabelle design, which took inspiration from Indian chintz ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

This summer, Buckingham Palace explores the exquisite taste of the Edwardians at the King's Gallery. Lucinda Gosling reveals the stories amid the glitter and gold in this feature from The Illustrated ...

NEW YORK — For its signature image, the organizers of “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity” didn’t choose Shahn’s most famous work. This might seem perverse. Actually, when taking into consideration the ...

A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific investigation by ...