JFK often had tenuous control of his own diplomats. Consider the 1963 assassination of South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem.

A retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art celebrates the painter’s distinctive style, characterized by frenetic brushstrokes, bold colors and distorted figuration that borders on abstraction.

Iran, North Korea and China are supplying the people and know-how to tool up Russia’s factories and churn out arms for the war in Ukraine.

The new museum at Pennsylvania State University is a more mature building than its Postmodern predecessor, but despite high marks for its handsome, ample spaces its out-of-the-way location is a failing.

The meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader comes on the heels of U.S. legislative efforts to lobby China over Tibetan freedoms.

Somehow pedestalled basins have fallen out of style. Why is that, when they’re a classic focal point, and the parade of bathing beauties brings such pleasure?