A snake ensnares mice on a wall facing a public parking lot in Mexico City last week.

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Elana Bell is the author of "Eyes, Stone" (2012, LSU Press), winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of…

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A puppet of Queen Elizabeth II features in a Punch & Judy show Sunday during a weekend of performances in London to celebrate 350 years since the first performance in England.

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Leslie Maitland reads from her book, "Crossing the Borders of Time."…

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A profile of poet Natalie Diaz and her language preservation work will air on the NewsHour soon, but here below is sneak peek of our interview with the 33-year-old writer, conducted along the banks of the Colorado River.

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Moscow subway passengers ride a special exhibition car containing reproductions of watercolors from the State Tretyakov Gallery on Friday.

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A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines (back from hiatus).

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A man looks at Czech artist Alfons Mucha's "Slav Epic," a cycle of 20 allegories tracing the history of the Slavic people and inspired in part by mythology, at the National Gallery in Prague on Thursday…

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Known for her large format photographs, Lalla Essaydi's work combines Islamic calligraphy and representations of the female body, focusing on the interconnection of faith, culture and gender and challenging notions within all three.

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Buddha statue on Vesak at the Borobudur temple in Magelang, Indonesia, on Sunday. Commonly referred to as the "Buddha's Birthday," Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha.

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