Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Realist painters of the Russian Empire. Born in present-day Ukraine, he traveled extensively, observing people and personalities. Although he was mostly known as a ...

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] crucified a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear.” It sounds ...

If you have not seen the hyperbolic commercials yet, please be informed the New Zealand Warriors begin their 2025 NRL season on March ...

Following 2006’s epic A Matter Of Life And Death and a tour which found them playing that album in full, Iron Maiden turned their eyes to the past with the Somewhere Back In Time Tour. In 2008, Metal ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

But his films, while deeply researched and steeped in worlds that themselves predate the advent of cinema, are nevertheless plainly the output of a consummate cinephile, an artist as conversant ...