NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to the Oscar-winning actor, Cillian Murphy, about his latest role in Small Things Like These. The film examines abuses committed by the Catholic church in Ireland.

Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous remark—avoiding politics doesn’t avoid the consequences of ...

The creation of this exhibit took on educational, personal, therapeutic, and — with the effects of H. B. 261 — political ...

But among members of the creative class — filmmakers, authors, painters, poets — a sense of purpose was percolating beneath ...

The Trump win has emphasised the gender divide. Males have shown by their vote that they can now not only think negatively ...

Germany marked 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell with festivities on Saturday under the theme “Preserve Freedom!,” against ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

Ma, the Met curator, was introduced to the artist in 2010, but she had admired her calligraphy since childhood. “I grew up in Taipei, and I remember that we had a catalog of hers,” Ma recalled. “At ...

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