On the reading list this week is a sweeping history of a young India and a portrait of one of the country’s first public ...

Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and romantic, with other men ...

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

Thirty years after Diamond fought his last, D’Amato unfurled tall tales about him to an impressionable young buck called Mike ...

The billionaire property developer filled his homes with 500 artworks and collectibles — now valued at more than €15mn ...

Journalists were used to dealing with aloof ministers during peace talks in Belfast, but the US diplomat was cut from ...

They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since?

More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films ...

Television is always in season these days. It can be a distraction from the world’s ills, transporting us back in time or ...

The 400% pay increase announced in the Netflix series ‘America’s Sweethearts’ had many obstacles — including the cheerleaders ...

You can’t see on the outside what’s wrong — trying to portray something invisible was an interesting field of tension for me as an artist.”  Théodore Géricault’s ‘Portrait of a Kleptomaniac’ ...

Looking for something to watch while travelling, or at home this summer? Esther McCarthy picks her film highlights of the ...