How does a ‘90s rocker make a decade of recording and touring look presentable on a resume?

Composer Missy Mazzoli and author Karen Russell on the ghostly new opera “Proving Up.”

More than 200 years ago, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire took a large part of the decorative marble sculptures and architecture off the outside of the Parthenon and brought them to London, where they now sit in the British Museum. For nearly 200 years, Greece has been asking for them back, to no avail.

Gibson Bagpipes in Nashua, New Hampshire, makes handcrafted bagpipes out of African blackwood. Two years ago, an international consortium that monitors endangered fauna and flora placed African blackwood on a “high risk” list. In order to continue to export their pipes, the company had to apply for a special permit.

In "La Morsure," or “The Bite,” Dewilde leans on the idea that the attack on the 2015 Bataclan in Paris was like a snake bite, “to poison me in my mind and in my heart in my body."

The Oscar-winning writer and director on the genius of Elaine May and finding inspiration from real life.

How radio preachers and John Dean’s Watergate testimony found their way into a Talking Heads album.

The price we pay for the price we pay for art.

Jollibee trades in Pinoy pride and nostalgia. Can it also capture the curiosity — and taste buds — of non-Filipino Americans?

Sometimes fate gets in the way when you’re trying to finish a creative project.