In the late 19th century, a letter addressed to “Mark Twain, God Knows Where” was delivered to him. That was celebrity before ...

The painter’s new show at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, ‘A Colorful Universe,’ captures the slow, exacting nature of his work.

Smack in the middle of Nevada on the “Loneliest Road in America” sits Austin, a town that proves “middle of nowhere” can be somewhere special. Main Street climbs up the side of a mountain, giving ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

The Hamilton and Grant biographer, out with a new study on Mark Twain, speaks to VF about the best and worst of the iconic ...

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow chronicles the life of one of the nation's most beloved humorists and writers in ...

INCLINE VILLAGE Dressed in his signature white suit, Samuel Clemens picks up his pipe and recalls the time he challenged a ...

The Courant’s arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and ...

Sandler, the 2023 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize, mocked the honoree in his signature fast ... Letterman also took a stand for comedy as an art of protest. “I’m not a historian, but I believe that ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

A Mark Rothko painting thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars is undergoing restoration after a child accidentally damaged the artwork at a museum in the Netherlands. “Grey, Orange on ...