Gu Mengjie is helping to popularize Western painters in China by using humor and anecdotes. Born in Shanghai, the 32-year-old former graphic designer was first noticed in 2013 for his long posts on ...

In his lyrical masterpiece "Playboy of the Western World," J.M. Synge found comedy even in lives as hard as the rocky coasts and granite mountains of Western Ireland. Certainly the play's rich folk ...

Every Friday at noon this summer, non profit Art21 is premiering a new film about a contemporary artist you should know about for their Summer of Shorts series. This week features Moroccan-born and ...

TV Westerns have become huge again, but Kurt Russell's Tombstone is the blueprint for the modern Western resurgence.

Western humor is all about adversity, braving the elements, surviving the landscape and stretching the truth. Call it polished prevarication. Not lies, exactly; more like embellishments. Stories that ...