A work of art can open a window that allows us to get a better view of the challenges of our own time. For example, a Flemish Renaissance painting portraying the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and his ...

Myth gets a twang in "Lift: Icarus and Me," which melds the Greek legend with the dawn of aeronautics. The play, set on a Texas beach in 1899, is about the fear of flying and all that represents. Is ...

An astrophotographer masterfully captured a skydiver appearing to fall across the sun, a stunning illusion achieved through meticulous planning and precise timing. This remarkable feat, requiring ...

Be forewarned: this is not like anything else the bestselling physicist Greene (The Elegant Universe) has written. Nor is it a children's book, though it looks like one, with simple, didactic text and ...