At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

Everyone alive associates “the Queen’s English” with a woman born on April 21, 1926. The very next day saw a different, and yet curiously related, birth of sorts: the release by Oxford University ...

To find Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) and Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), two of the greatest sculptors in the history of art, in one exhibition at the Louvre is bound to be an experience. The ...

While everyone has heard of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, not all Spanish conquistadors covered themselves with glory. Consider Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, who in 1540 led an ambitious ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.