The recent price of $104.2 million for Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" dramatizes the chasm that separates the art market from the contribution that great art can make to human life.

The technology exists to create high-quality reproductions of artworks, but thus far it has not been widely utilized.

The late Norman Mailer transformed himself into one of the best English stylists of the later twentieth century and wrote several books that will last.

Because federal support of the arts is neither appropriate nor effectual, Congress must summon the will to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

A literary elegy formurdered-by-modernity romantic love.

If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why should the institution not do the same?

Techno-utopians argue that science will give us the means to straighten the crooked timber of humanity and to remake our species into something "post-human."

The West may have been pivotally important, but has it been too much at center stage?