It is Spring 1911, and the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has just opened its doors to reveal an exceedingly peculiar exhibit. On the walls were neatly hung drawings...

On paper, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas appear relatively similar. Both were born into the Parisian upper-class and deviated from familial expectations to become artists. Both forwent formal artistic...

Tracing Terruño, Muriel Hasbun’s exhibit of her photography, located on the second floor of the International Center of Photography, is lacking in color. Throughout the three-room showing, a first for...

Everybody seems to love the exhilaration of being frightened. Since ancient times, humanity has been fascinated with finding a cunning and innocuous use for the oldest and most primordial emotion, fear....

As the haunting spirit of the Halloween season creeps upon us, we invite the scariest of monsters, beasts, and ghouls onto our television screens to satisfy our desire for suspense. Ever since the emergence...

New York City’s blocks of buildings are admired by any who consider themselves to be architectural connoisseurs. The centuries of populations that have resided in the 'City that Never Sleeps' have left...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five has been distinguished by many readers as a deliciously complex conglomeration of purposeful science-fiction, humorous satire, and gritty irony. It has also been challenged...

The renowned Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) is well-known among classical musicians. The famous adagietto movement from his Fifth Symphony can be recognized by anyone with...

Praised as one of the most influential artists in the world, Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh led a life that does not quite live up to the glory of his name now. With little formal art education,...

Born in 1757, William Blake was an English poet and painter whose work gives us a glimpse into a world of wonder. In his lifetime, his art was ignored or dismissed, and few people took his ideas seriously....

When I first saw actors marching across the stage, waving Confederate flags and singing songs venerating the legacy of the Confederacy, I was taken aback. Though I knew that the actors were pretending...

On a rare visit to a museum in Basel, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky looked at Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, which depicts an emaciated Christ covered in plum purple...

Drop everything now. After five long years, Taylor Alison Swift has returned to the stage. Taylor Swift is one of the most well known names in pop culture to date. Since her self-titled debut album...

An age of rotary phones, Bing Crosby, and going steady. A time when unaccompanied fourth graders roamed New York City streets and high school seniors only applied to three colleges. An age foreign to the...

In an atmosphere of ever-expanding films of budgets unimaginable and star-studded casts, the work of long-appraised filmmakers, such as the controversial and unique Wes Anderson, is more essential than...

Imagine walking between Washington Square Park and the Flatiron Building in the late 1800s, taking in the views and beautiful scenery that the prosperity of the neighborhoods provided. What is lesser...

From the brilliant minds of the creators behind the hit series ‘Dark’, ‘1899’ is a mind boggling thriller mystery that will be sure to have viewers eager to find out what happens next. This is...

東宝 東宝株式会社 (Toho Toho Company, LTD) This is one of the first things one sees at the beginning of any of Shinkai Makoto’s work as well as all Japanese animated film. The greenish-blue background...

For the past three years, I have embarked on the journey of game development. I went through dozens of ideas, looped through the hoops of initial design and beta testing over and over again, tested my...

Our society has steadily been shifting regarding the ways in which it views work. While some millennials may consider work as a means of having a steady income, people are working together to turn their...