Alain de Botton is the author of The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was and is a cultural colossus, a figure to rank alongside Dante and Shakespeare.

This is the story of educational romanticism in elementary and secondary schools —its rise, its etiology, and, we have reason to hope, its approaching demise. Educational romanticism consists of the ...

Kamran Khavarani created his own art genre, but he wasn’t sure what to name it. That’s why he called Albert Boime, a late UCLA art history professor, who later hailed Khavarani as the leader of a new ...

In art, there have been many eras, ages, and phases. Be it the Dutch Golden Age, or the Renaissance era, every art style has given the world masterpieces that are appreciated even today. But, like ...

For specific instructions about session formats, please scroll to the bottom of the page. Facilitated by the CU Boulder 18-19 Graduate Students. Moderated by Grace Rexroth. Panelists include Nikki ...