Aquarium of Vulcan

Two contrasting faces of Winter to end the year with. In the Dutch painter Frederick Marinus Kruseman's Winter scene with ska...

Aldous Huxley's first novel Crome Yellow (1921) is a dazzling display of wit which satirizes the follies and foibles of post world...

Matthew Bourne is surely one of the most innovative choreographers in the modern dance world. His male-roled  Swan Lake (1994) propel...

Today is the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, and also the birthday of the English composer Benjamin Britten (1913...

The Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493-1541) has a fascinating, yet little explored relationship to the 17th century ph...