John Lurie's particular style of introspection, all while painting watercolors, can go from serene to outrageous and back at any given moment. I don’t envy the person who has to write the episode ...

Between classes, deadlines and endless notifications, silence can feel impossible to find. But a few brushstrokes might help.

In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, mandalas are an object of meditation that aid focus and help with a person’s spiritual growth, the geometric designs – mostly circular – made up of repetitive colours ...

A Month in Siena. By Hisham Matar. Random House; 126 pages; $27. Viking; £12.99. JABALLA MATAR was a businessman and dissident in Muammar Qadaffi’s Libya. In 1979 he fled to Cairo with his family. One ...

Van der Weyden’s depiction of Saint Luke is a meditation on attention as much as painting I often study the expression on the face of Saint Luke in this masterpiece by Rogier van der Weyden at ...

Appearances can be deceiving, which is certainly the case with Iranian filmmaker Maziar Miri’s lovely, heart-rending drama about an affectionate, mentally challenged couple whose “normal” son Soheil, ...

David Lynch is well known as an experimental filmmaker, directing such cult classics as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and the surreal TV series Twin Peaks. He’s also a musician, with ...

I don’t envy the person who has to write the episode descriptions for “Painting with John.” It is true that “John recounts how the obsession he and his brother had for John Coltrane’s ‘Live at ...