The story of Les Misérables (the book), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862, is set in post-revolutionary France, ...

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Paquita” brings Marius Petipa’s 19th-century style to New York City Ballet through two lenses: his own ...

His body feints, his dribbling, and his virtuosity are still studied today. Pelé was not just a player; he was a symbol of footballing excellence, a master of the beautiful game.

Etel Adnan, ‘This Beautiful Light’, exhibition view, White Cube, New York. Courtesy: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2025; ...

Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand. ‘It came to such a point that whenever I had to move my fourth finger, my whole body ...

Based on ever-faster chord changes, bebop was hard listening for the general public and was a tour du force for musicians cutting each other in ever-increasing displays of virtuosity. Cool jazz ...

Oven symbols can be obscure and if you don't know what they mean, you might not get the best cooking and baking results. But most ovens tend to use similar symbols, so once you've learned what to look ...

Assessing the quality of offerings available from Netflix in 2025, it quickly becomes clear that their horror library is a real mixed bag. As competing services, and especially genre-specific ones ...

A teacher at Drakensburg Secondary School in South Africa is under investigation for allegedly cutting off a Hindu student's religious thread. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha has condemned the ...

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor. By Alissa Wilkinson Kristen Stewart and Steven ...