Michael Kilian

The Japanese called it "The Floating World." The reference is to the world of travel, the unfolding revelations of unexplored places, magnificent vistas, unexpected adventures, curiosities and all the transient...

And now for some long overdue recognition for a much neglected resident of the White House. The horse. These noble animals did not, of course, actually reside inside the presidential...

The war in Iraq has begun to seep into American theater. Each year, the Contemporary American Theater Festival here presents four new and usually cutting-edge works, often including world premieres....

There is only so much space and time in our lives for relationships, whether they're to do with family, friendships or amour. As we embrace new people, we tend to...

Tim Hawkinson, whose very first major career exhibition at age 45 has qualified as a featured attraction this year -- at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art and the...

It is one of the most popular boating paintings of its time, or any time. Three boys sit on the starboard rail of a catboat heeling before a brisk wind...

Happily for civilization, even genius film directors can change their minds. For students in New York's Greenwich Village in the late 1950s -- especially those of us fortunate to study...

An awkward, shy, single, lonely, middle-age British bureaucrat takes tea one afternoon in a London cafe (coffee shop) so crowded he must ask to share a booth occupied only by...

The time has come once again to remember "the Forgotten War." But will we? Next week is the 55th anniversary of the start of the Korean War -- when North...

The time apparently has come to separate those who can't get enough Shakespeare from those who really can't get enough Shakespeare. It was announced last week that for six full...