It was a look into his eyes that made Harry de Leyer gamble $80 on a gray horse destined for the slaughterhouse. De Leyer, who moved to the US with his wife after escaping Nazi-occupied Germany, ...

“The Snow Man” appeared in Poetry magazine in 1921 and then in the 1923 “Harmonium,” the first book of poetry from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). The book was not a success, and Stevens made sure with ...

Anyone who has been to art school knows the groundbreaking work of the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose titillating Rube Goldberg-esque videos often wake students from their ...

Miracles, massacres, and Michelangelo; see how snowmen had a frosty hand in them all. Smolina Marianna/Shutterstock The snowman is like a frozen Forrest Gump—look to many of history’s cultural ...