After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

The Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season, featuring Broadway favorites, thrilling mysteries, and ...

Yes, you read that right. While starring in 2006 classic The Da Vinci Code – based on Dan Brown’s books – Tom, 68, had a ...

Tom Hanks experienced an amusing wardrobe mishap while filming The Da Vinci Code at the Louvre Museum. Director Ron Howard recounted how the actor had to change his pants in front of the Mona Lisa.

Many people depicted in a supposedly "groundbreaking" book on psychedelics and religion are now speaking out against it.

The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and ...

Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch,” another novel about another Dutch painting from the same period, hanging in the same museum, the Maurithuis in The Hague, won ...

According to a synopsis of the book, Langdon travels to Prague to attend a lecture by his girlfriend, Katherine Solomon, a “prominent noetic scientist” who is set to publish a book that “contains ...

Billy Wilder, for his part, directed and co-wrote Some Like It Hot, the film that ends with Jack Lemmon (as Daphne) trying to ...

The Lady Chapel has been illuminated with newly refurbished lighting to allow visitors to see more of the detailed stonework (Jane Barlow/PA) Fresh light has been shone on ornate stone carvings at a ...

The daily life of a Desert Sun reporter is a never-ending game of "what will today bring?" One day you're rounding up restaurant inspection reports at your desk, and the next you're interviewing ...

The expansion saw the Scottish Government invest in 12 additional da Vinci surgical systems since 2021, more than tripling the number of existing da Vinci surgical systems in the country.