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In a strategy that is wearyingly familiar to preservationists, property owners rush to obtain demolition permits so their structures won’t receive protection from the city’s Landmarks Preservation ...

On Friday, France celebrated the famed anthropologist and author Claude Lévi-Strauss’s centenary with films, lectures and free admission to the museum he inspired, the Musée du Quai Branly.

“Garden of Earthly Delights” had a triumphant opening last week, but, as its creators explain, it came a hair’s breadth from not happening at all.

What happened to the image of Scandinavia as the frigid tundra of hot sex?

It took Axl Rose 14 years to complete the latest Guns N’ Roses album. But it took his lawyers only two days to take Dr Pepper to task for not making good on a promise of free soda to “everyone in A...

For decades high-profile figures from politics and the media have enjoyed well-paid speaking engagements. But now a host of industries that regularly book speakers are examining their budgets.

An examination of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s operations reveals an overtaxed agency that often takes years to act.

Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. And “Milk” is a marvel.

“Australia” is a pastiche of genres and references wrapped up into one horse-galloping, cattle-stampeding, camera-swooping, music-swelling, widescreen package.

“Tried by War,” by acclaimed historian — and tour guide — James M. McPherson, is one of several Abraham Lincoln studies emerging in advance of the president’s 200th birthday in February.