Artist Robert Morgan was in his apartment when he heard the shots that killed the music icon. He recalls that horrific night in the new documentary 'Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade'.

Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia reignited the Victorian imagination in paintings, poetry, and plays.

New research published in The Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that looking at tragic art—specifically sculptures depicting the suffering of refugees—can produce positive emotional ...

The paintings typically use striking splashes ... “You get the sunset and you get the spectacular, tragic explosions. ... It had the sunshine and the noir, the brightness and the darkness ...