This painting depicts the young actress Ellen Terry reaching out to the opulent but scentless camellia and discarding the common, but fragrant violets in her hand. National Portrait Gallery, Lon Was ...

Writer of children’s fiction Cao Wenxuan became last April the first Chinese author ever to be awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded as the Nobel Prize of children’s literature, at the ...

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 ...

Considered an exemplar of "Art-for-Arts Sake" in Victorian art and literature, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was co-opted as a standard bearer for the cult of hedonism by Oscar Wilde, and this version of ...

The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers "the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater." Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami's ...

Perhaps famously attributed to and alluded by Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man”, the couplets above came to be the epigraph of this unfortunate Victorian personality. Born with severe deformities ...

Towards the end of the Bharangam, there were some very interestig plays. Towards the end of the Bharangam, there were some very interestig plays. The Wild from Walkabout Theatre Company, USA, directed ...

This article was written by one of our Young Reporters, a scheme that gives 14 to 18-year-old school students a chance to write for a real newspaper. Find out more at the Young Reporter website. Oscar ...