“You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend — those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”  This famous quote, as well as others from this movie, have become...

“Remember that wherever your heart is, you will find your treasure.”  It’s a cool afternoon in November 2020, and I just finished my tiring virtual classes for the day. I close my laptop,...

New York City. It is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. With around 65 million visitors yearly before COVID-19 and about 22 million during the worst of the pandemic, it's never quiet. When...

We are most used to seeing celebrities as they appear on the screen with glossy hair and perfectly applied makeup. Their seemingly perfect lives are so close yet so far. But recently, even though we continue...

You’re walking down an ordinary street in Chelsea, New York, passing the TD bank and ViVi Bubble Tea, when a message on a building facade catches your eye: “In a society that profits from your self-doubt,...

After a quick visit to the ticket booth and listening to a lady mumbling through a glass divider, who asked for my student I.D. card, I was off to the Greek and Roman collection of the Metropolitan...

On a European odyssey, a 19-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor breaks bread with peasants, sleeps placidly under a canopy of weeping willows, explores majestic libraries and fairytale woods, loses a blooming...

Art history is a term often associated with memories of museums filled with silence, broken only by the occasional cough or meandering footsteps of onlookers. But in reality, it is a complex field that...

A single FMaj9 chord ripples through the air. For three seconds, the note lingers in a suspended breath until its poignant sharpness fades away. There is no mistaking it; this is Joe Hisaishi’s One Summer's...

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” It was a crisp, late January morning of 1813. The...

Artists have always struggled to create authentically without being ridiculed. In the Soviet Union, though, the consequences went far past social exclusion -- many faced imprisonment and persecution for...

A war torn battlefield, decimated by a seemingly endless power struggle, serves as the backdrop for a showdown ten years in the making. Thanos, a persistent foe, cowers at the Avengers, pointing his sword...

RWBY is a series created by Monty Oum, about four main characters-- Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang-- who go to Beacon Academy with the intention of becoming huntresses. In this world, creatures called the...

“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you – are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with...

The newly bought German clock hits 5:26 a.m. It is about to be dawn and you can see light trickling in through the window as you try to write down your thoughts before they fade away, like the darkness...

A wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked child with a short bob cut stands alone in a dainty red dress, surrounded by overwhelming emptiness. Her protruding head covers most of the canvas,  where viewers come...

Grapes, curtains, and ancient Greece: these are an unlikely combination, yet they are the foundation of a cubism. The creative cultural concept was born when two Greek painters, Parrhasius and Zeuxius,...

If you’re craving a wholesome, family-friendly anime packed with light action on the side, then I have the perfect show for you 00 ‘Spy x Family’. To those that may prefer reading instead, fear not,...

From a lazy, lasagna-loving cat to a brooding bat-themed vigilante, comic books have been one of the oldest sources of entertainment out there. It’s no surprise that these small pop art strips have been...