Last semester, I visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — now my favorite art museum — for the first time. Built by Gardner and her husband to display their vast art collection in a dignified and ...

Sharon Falk, a visual artist, began her career in a place where highlighting the poignant moments of life is the order of the ...

The face with the inimitable spectacles is still everywhere: in graffiti, children’s fancy-dress costumes, at protest marches ...