Horace Pippin was a self-taught African-American artist known for his poetic paintings of flowers, genre scenes, and historical events such as the hanging of the abolitionist John Brown. With their ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

The team behind the Caldecott Honor book A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams returns with a rewarding picture-book biography of self-taught African-American artist Horace Pippin. As ...

In the spring of 1944 British special forces and local guerrillas kidnapped Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, the commander of the German forces occupying the Greek island of Crete. The kidnappers marched ...

After four weeks of rehearsal, high school students put on an enticing production of “Pippin,” the culminating production of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Summer Youth Conservatory. Steven Schwartz ...

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Hobbits were a vital part of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Along with other races, they had an essential role in the ...

ROAD TRIP: Catch a screening of 'A Goofy Movie' at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington on Feb. 23. Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport offers a Gesture Drawing Workshop ...

Brandywine River Museum to host story-reading, book-signing and art activities A book by Chester County author Jen Bryant will be the focus of a workshop at the Brandywine River Museum. The ...

As a boy, Horace Pippin hung around the race track at Goshen, N. Y., sketching the trotters on odd scraps of paper. Later, as a husky moving-man, he used to ask for the job of crating people’s ...