NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.

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Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

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The French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa on Tuesday (28 January) to announce a “new renaissance” of the Musée du Louvre, after its director Laurence des ...

Nuclear power, in particular, has been on the cusp of a renaissance for years, driven by advances in fuel and reactor designs that promise to make a new generation of power plants safer and ...

This belief drove artists to study anatomy not only to achieve realism but also to explore the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of the human form. By the late Renaissance, the advancements in ...

Residents in Renaissance Park held a gathering Sunday night for a Raleigh police officer in critical condition after a shooting days earlier that killed two men in the neighborhood. Neighbors and ...

It’s time to dig the corset and elf ears out of the closet because the Arizona Renaissance Festival is ... White covers entertainment, art and culture for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.

Creations from more than 250 artists will be the centerpiece of the 49 th Annual “IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts,” a three-day outdoor event that runs through Sunday in New Smyrna Beach.