James Hilton’s ‘Lost Horizon’ captures the cultural apprehension widely felt in the early 1930s.
Titian portrait of ‘Doge Andrea Gritti’ is in almost the same condition as the day it left the artist’s studio.
Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Death of Sardanapalus’ confounded and scandalized his contemporaries.
Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, once likened to Lego, proposed a new design for living
John La Farge’s ‘The Resurrection of Christ’ offers a revolutionary approach to an ancient medium.
George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ is filled with sympathy, tact and uncommon insight.
Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House offers the security of a cave with the joy of a pavilion.
Stepwells were used for water, worship, refuge, relaxation and more—Chand Baori is considered the deepest and one of the oldest.
In James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother, chaste American character meets subtle refinement.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony mocked the dictator while bowing to him.
John Adams’s ‘Harmonielehre’ gave Minimalism a push forward.
John Constable’s despair following the death of his wife may have shaped the dramatic tenor of his ‘Salisbury Cathedral From the Meadows.’
Carpenter’s painting forever altered the public face of Lincoln
This iconic painting, from his Four Freedoms series, honors respect for speakers of all stripes.
Leo Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ tells the story of a wasted life capped with a moment of grace.
The building recast museums as interactive cultural facilitators.
The first edition of Henry Watson Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage offers advice on useful distinctions and so much more.
Richard Brooks’s screen adaptation of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ is a portrait of waste, loss and spiritual emptiness.
In his ‘In a Station of the Metro,’ Ezra Pound tried to change the way poetry worked.
The sculptor’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’ is surrounded by a sense of timelessness.
Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition in Black and Gray’ finds the spiritual in the abstract.
The piano piece by Ferruccio Busoni is the ultimate statement of the Romantic concerto.
‘Brighton Rock,’ Graham Greene’s first Catholic novel, rejects absolutes.
Among the structure’s many oddities is a Renaissance church built in the middle of the mosque’s prayer hall
Erich von Stroheim’s 1924 silent ‘Greed’ raises the question of whether genius can come from many hands.