An exhibit of Francisco Goya's paintings and prints at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts showcases an amazing talent and a personality who lived through extraordinary and frequently horrifying times.

Hank Williams

The Hollywood musical was slaughtered onscreen for the entertainment of the spectator in The Phantom of Hollywood, a horribly tacky made-for-TV movie.

Before The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien was a philologist, a specialist in historical texts.

Little Orphan Annie is the latest in a sequence of pop culture foundlings, but America’s orphans of the Great Depression weren’t endearing at all.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

Guglielmo Marconi successfully made the first transatlantic radio transmission on December 12, 1901.

In their 2010 article on injury prevention for musicians, Christine Guptill and Christine Zaza outline strategies to ward off injuries from muscle overuse.

The archive of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, will go to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Mourning clothes were a signal to the world that a family—really, that a woman had suffered a loss.