The 1920s was a period of cultural revolution that came soon after the traumatic events of World War I. The mass-scale ...

Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life ...

The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His grids and super-luminous yellows, reds and whites are instantly identifiable. Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography ...

ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...

The Man Who Told the Truth" is the first biography of the legendary writer and a revealing portrait of a complex newsman. I spoke recently to author Richard Esposito. Welcome to the "News Hour." ...

What was up with Piet Mondrian and those kisses? Among the discoveries in a new biography of the pioneering abstract painter by Nicholas Fox Weber, “Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the ...

Piet le Roux, CEO of Sakeliga, is pressing Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen to withdraw Agri-BEE regulations affecting agricultural imports and exports. Leroux argues that applying BEE criteria ...

Exchanges like this that reveal moments of despair and vulnerability by the seemingly eternally optimistic Lewis are partly what makes Greenberg’s biography of the civil rights icon so remarkable.