Géricault ripped his subject from the headlines, basing the work on a scandal that had recently roiled France.

Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

Alain de Botton is the author of The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

Kamran Khavarani created his own art genre, but he wasn’t sure what to name it. That’s why he called Albert Boime, a late UCLA art history professor, who later hailed Khavarani as the leader of a new ...

About the author:Jeffrey N. Cox is the author of and is a professor of English and humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder. Book description: Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British ...

Ross Douthat has a good post up today explaining why a certain faction of the Right fights so hard over the small government issue. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but basically he argues ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...