The nation just can't get enough of blue dresses, can it? No sooner had the furor over a blue-and-black dress (or is it gold and white?) subsided than painter Nelson Shanks sparked his own kerfuffle ...

Michael Mewshaw's witty and sad account of his friendship with Gore Vidal -- "Sympathy for the Devil" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24) -- shows us that Vidal's cool and detached tone at his public ...

PASADENA, Calif., July 14 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have combined three images taken seconds apart on Mars using various colored filters to create a portrait of a moving dust devil. "The ...

The searing portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon at the height of his fame in the 1960s is one of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed.

I am haunted by dogs dying on screen. There was the dog cruelly killed in Young Wallander and now poor Jack meets a grisly fate in this excellent and supremely disturbing Gothic noir from Antonio ...