Art & Culture

Her role as Arya Stark won her millions of fans but left her bullied at school. Now the 21-year-old is making her stage debut, starring in a Marvel horror – and finally getting her fingernails painted...

Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower. As we drive through the nearby town of Abingdon, Virginia, she identifies some brightly painted wooden houses; the tavern built in 1779; the Barter...

Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners has come out of the hat and will be our book for this month’s Reading Group. This novel was the overwhelmingly popular choice last week, when we were nominating titles to celebrate the...

Montserrat Caballé, the Spanish soprano widely counted among the last of the old-time prima donnas for the transcendent purity of her voice, the sweeping breadth of her repertory and the delirious adulation of her fans, died...

LONDON — The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction....

The Cologne Central Mosque has been making headlines recently, and the effects have not all been negative. On the contrary: An especially large number of curious, non-Muslim visitors attended this year’s mosque Open Day. “If not...

One of the great masterpieces of 19th-century western art was loosely inspired by one of the greats of 19th-century Japanese art, it has been argued. Martin Bailey, a specialist on Vincent van Gogh, believes that the...

The controversial rapper and his wife have broken their silence, saying they are free of the German-Arab mafia clan run by Bushido’s former business partner, Arafat Abou-Chaker. Anna-Maria Ferchichi, the wife of star rapper Bushido, has...

The winner: The House With a Clock in Its Walls The robustly reliable family market propelled the latest production from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to the top of the UK box office, with £2.3m for the...

His performances have helped breathe new life into romcoms, and fans swoon over his soulful brown eyes. So why can’t he put on a jumper properly? Name: Noah Centineo. Age: 22. Appearance: The internet’s new boyfriend. Hang on, I...