OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers ...

The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.

ALBANY — Rosanna Vosburgh is a powerful portrait of upward mobility in Albany. She was an African American female born in ...

The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of women into celebrations of friends, family and lovers – with plenty of ...

Witticist-lyricist Lorenz Hart would cringe at the pun, but “Blue Moon” is nothing if not a funny valentine to the tortured (closeted, Jewish, alcoholic, diminutive) songwriter who died in 1943 at age ...

Mary Washington helped her son develop into the leader he became. While her son was the subject of several portrait artists, ...

VIENNA -- Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely revered like a ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

Happy couples love to watch romance movies on Valentine’s Day and with good reason. They get to see their story played out on ...