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 ...

"True Grit" is one of the most mainstream, crowd-pleasing films Joel and Ethan Coen have made. It's sort of a screwball Western, if you will, with vivid performances and strikingly vast, picturesque ...

Thornton, 20-year veteran of the politically satirical comedy troupe The Capitol Steps, admits it’s more difficult to spoof some politicians than others. But for him, that’s not because of any ...