Today in Music History for Dec. 12: In 1792, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven paid the equivalent of 19 cents for his first lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna. Beethoven is ...

From a Polynesian island ringed by blue lagoons to Chile's gaucho heartland, these are BBC journalists' top destinations this ...

Artist and scenographer Alexander Wessely turned the banquet into a three-act meditation on light inside Stockholm City Hall ...

Jazz singer Nat King Cole helped his new wife, Maria Hawkins, cut the five-tier wedding cake at their Harlem reception in ...

Operation Midway Blitz” wrapped up its campaign of terror in mid-November, but that doesn’t mean life for Chicago’s 600,000 immigrants and their communities is back to normal. Since the arrival of ...

The dynamic singer, who died Monday, was attracted to the Tex-Mex music pioneered by Doug Sahm and Flaco Jimenez.

The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city ...

These are the 9 best luxury hotels in Chicago, where the hotels are both leaders in luxury and architecturally significant.

If you're the type to cope with daily anxieties and stress by burying your head in a pile of riveting true crime stories—the ...

A curated guide to accessible collecting, featuring photographs, prints and original works by artists who shaped art history — and others who will — all under or just above €1,000.

More wailing about “inequality.” Who gets to study music? Either rich kids, or people who do not mind sacrificing money, marriage, and social status in order to pursue their art. This is why those ...