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Guggenheim Museum, New York Partial gift, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, New York, 1995 Let’s face it. Pop Art has ...

Fifa’s decision to allow the U.S. star striker to play against Belgium is in clear breach of the association’s rules.

What emerges it not the Washington of postcards or political mythology, but a richer and more nuanced capital.

This time around, they remind us that Randy Newman’s iconic Toy Story anthem, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” still rings true, even as our understanding of friendship continues to evolve. For Andy, ...

Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today ...

There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

Robin Hood dies. A summer laugh-fest, this ain’t. For those who don’t fully recall the 15th-century legend, an English farmer ...

Hans Christian Andersen was speaking about his fairytales, in perfect Danish, on a street corner in Odense, Denmark. The small crowd that had gathered was enrapt, laughing and applauding. Then, ...

Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...

Ornate shops line Krahnstrasse, Osnabrück's main pedestrian path in the Old Town. I can think of three reasons why you ended up in Osnabrück, Germany: 1) Your car ...