EROS. Eros was the ancient Greek god of sexual (either homosexual or heterosexual) love or desire. The word erōs is the ordinary noun denoting that emotion; it could be personified and treated as an external being because of its unfathomable and...

In Greek mythology, Eros (Greek: Ἔρως) was the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. In some myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and...

More auteurist than erotic, Eros consists of three short films directed by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni. With a title like that on a marquee, the film's target audience (read: literate letches), hardly needs any reviews to encourage them to sample the...

Taiwan criticized the Venice International Film Festival on Tuesday for listing a movie by Oscar-winning Taiwanese director Ang Lee as originating in "Taiwan, China," a label that suggests the self-ruled island is part of mainland China.China and Taiwan set up their governments in 1949 amid...

These past few years, American Ballet Theatre has been spreading its wings, and this past week it soared. The occasion was the company's new production of Frederick Ashton's three-act ballet Sylvia, which he created for Margot Fonteyn. The year was 1952, and Fonteyn-three years after...

“I am tired of the ‘Six.’ I am weary of Erik Satie. I am fed up with Malipiero. The music of Zoltán Kodály has begun to pall on me. I have consigned my Arnold Schoenberg scores to the flames …. ” So, in 1922, Carl...