In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap advertisements to the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post." His drawings ...

THE BASICS: With guest mezzo-soprano Susan Platts, JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in her specialty, four early 20 th century works, three by Stravinsky and one by Ravel ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the London-based Simplified Speling Soesiety was one of the groups pushing for a more logical system of English spelling.

The exhibition will bring together more than 40 contemporary paintings and over 40 historical photos from the Nalin collection. Forty-one paintings by 13 contemporary Nepali artists will be on display ...

As residents continue to imagine what Altadena’s future could look like after the Eaton fire, dreamers have begun mapping plans inspired by old Sears catalogs.

In its latest exhibit, Honoring Nature: Early Southern Appalachian Landscape Painting, the Asheville Art Museum spotlights several early 20th-century painters who captured the soaring vistas of ...

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's Project Century Gets A Strange New Title Stranger Than Heaven takes players back to the Japan of the early 20th century.

The Roman goddess Virtus has been on the state flag since 1861, but the banner has only featured her bare breast since the early 20th century.

A new study shows that the oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900--1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were ...

Contractors working for the University of Virginia have uncovered another piece of history. Workers on the Rotunda’s lower north plaza excavated a stone pillar, several feet tall with what looked to ...

Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.

Artcore unpacks the trends that have shaken up today‘s and yesterday‘s art world—from the elegance of 18th-century Neoclassicism to the bold provocations of the 1990s Young British Artists.