Val Gray Ward was a force of nature – a groundbreaking actress and fearless matriarch of the Black Arts Movement. Founder of ...

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

The tradition of hanging nasturtiums was started by Isabella Stewart Gardner herself to mark the arrival of spring.

May, visitors are surrounded by fabulous florals of every description in the several well-heeled squares of the English ...

Japan 's official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country's favorite flower, declaring ...

April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of that I will offer some thoughts about springtime poems. The first to come to ...

One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 ...

A flower named for Nottingham is getting a helping hand to flourish after years of decline. The Nottingham crocus is believed ...

From the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival to the Spring Flower Show to a mushroom hunt and experimental film, here's what to do this weekend.

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Spectators can see lots of moths in her artwork. As moths, contradictory to butterflies, represent endings, death, and even ...