A portrait of Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old former National Youth Poet Laureate who gave a widely admired recital at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, has been gifted to Harvard University by art collector and gallerist Amar Singh, an alum of the college. Gorman, who was the inaugural National...

Boston authorities have arrested and charged 48-year-old Robert Viens, a resident of Randolph, Massachusetts, for smashing a glass door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum last weekend. Police responded to reports of an attempted break-in at the notorious museum at around 4:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. According...

As the world recognizes Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kiev has unveiled plans for a major—and highly unconventional—memorial and museum complex in Babyn Yar, a ravine outside the Ukrainian city where Nazis executed 100,000 people. The $100 million project’s artistic director is the...

In the trailer for his new HBO show, the musician, actor, and painter John Lurie pits himself against a much-beloved American television host. “Bob Ross was wrong. Everybody can’t paint,” Lurie deadpans. Lurie’s new show, Painting With John—a title that pays homage to his farcical early ’90s...