Michael Kilian

How many of you have ever been to Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum? I sense a mere smattering of hands -- fewer even than would respond to my asking how many had...

It turns out that beauty really is only skin deep. If you're a dead giraffe. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is opening its new, 25,000-square-foot Hall of...

After sex and death, the subject that seems to fascinate Americans most is the rich. From Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Louis Auchincloss and Danielle Steele, authors have...

The St. Louis Art Museum this weekend opened "German Art Now," an exhibition featuring some of the most powerful images to confront the German people and the postwar art world...

While loitering about the White House briefly last week during Laura Bush's elegant state dinner for Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, I was struck once again about how little the place...

In this space a couple of weeks ago, I advanced the perhaps heretical notion that Shakespeare's comedies, however classic, are not necessarily laff riots. I now hasten to amend that...

The selection of Danica McKellar for the lead in the just-opened West Coast production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Proof" must be the most perfect type-casting in the history of...

Shakespeare was no Woody Allen. More to the point, he was no Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This less than lofty notion occurred to me the other night as I was enjoying...

Imagine going to the Art Institute of Chicago, walking up to Vincent van Gogh's colorful 1889 painting of his digs, "The Bedroom," and stepping right into the picture, proceeding all...

The Whitney Museum of American Art here has mounted an exhibition of artwork all about America, but little of it is actually American art. The idea behind "The American Effect"...