What is an Art and Crafts Village? How does it operate? Walking through the corridors of the Art and Crafts Village in Thiruvananthapuram answers such questions. Here, artisans, weavers, and other ...

Suchitra Mattai uses vintage saris and vivid found materials to weave exquisite tapestries that challenge fixed histories about art and migration. By Kriston Capps Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor ...

By Brian Raftery The Books Readers Loved in 2024 A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around ...

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

Going bananas: Duct-taped fresh fruit sells for millions at Sotheby’s A banana duct-taped to a wall is causing a stir in the art world again. It just sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s.

Christmas movie classics like It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street are part of our holiday pop-cultural DNA. But there’s a deranged subset that we prefer with our craft beer…the Christmas ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

December 24, 2024 • Notre Dame's longest serving organist Olivier Latry tells of the cathedral's transformed acoustics. After a horrific fire in 2019, craftspeople resurrected the cathedral in ...

The movie is more suitable for Easter, but Lew Wallace’s novel is more about the Incarnation and people’s responses to it. It Happened One Christmas may retain much of the thematic import and ...

For more than a century, Parsons has been inspired by the transformative potential of design. Today, the school’s groundbreaking academic programs carry forward that mission, making Parsons the number ...