Arts

What asymmetry in art can tell us about the way we view sickness and health, life and death

Rare is the Hitchcock film that celebrates desire without disaster

With theaters shut during the pandemic, reading plays has shed surprising light on works both familiar and strange

To what extent does a work of art belong to the people of the world?

The Academy Award–winning film about the making of Citizen Kane is really a window into the tumultuous, brutal side of Hollywood’s golden age

How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center

On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore

Comments on the famous murder ballad’s oldest known lyrics

Kansas City of the 1930s witnessed a style of American music inspired by the wonders of the industrial age

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?