In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate,” an exhibition including major modern artists, reveals the connection between our naked ...

During the Roman Empire, bathhouses were more than a clean place to rinse off the grime from the grind; they were central to ...

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

Titled "The Struggle Against Terrorism," the 1,000-square-foot artwork suffered from neglect for 90 years. Now, conservators ...

Contemporary Indian artists are combining textile with other mediums and disciplines to explore personal histories, question gender roles and respond to a changing world ...

In a new memoir, singer-songwriter Neko Case explores how she learned to channel long-ago loneliness into lyrical harmony.

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into ...

The Aboriginal population was small and persecuted, and the Commonwealth government’s exclusivist White Australia policy helped to maintain the continent’s striking cultural homogeneity. However, in ...

By weaving together historical insight and close analysis, Whitlum-Cooper sheds light on Caravaggio’s legacy and offers an illuminating look at the artist’s bold treatment of complex themes.

To learn the history of a new destination, travelers should look no further than its most famous buildings ... churches in Canaletto’s 18th-century paintings. While there’s no evidence ...

Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US I visited the city that's been nicknamed the 'Paris of North America.' It really feels like a charming slice of Europe in Canada ...