The Historic House Trust of New York City announced plans to restore the Little Red Lighthouse, a landmark in Washington Heights made famous by the 1942 children's book.

The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.

Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetized attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale?

The museum restituted two of Drake’s stoneware jars to his heirs, but has found a way to keep both on display. It joins a growing number of institutions that are returning his work to his heirs.

Thomas Kaplan’s Leiden Collection acquired St John on Patmos at Sotheby’s, the 18th work by the Dutch master to enter the collection

In a year full of historical reflections for America's 250th anniversary, the time is ripe to consider an iconic Philadelphia soup that has nearly disappeared — and attempt to revive it.

While the swooping building is impressive and easy to navigate, the collection is patchy and the displays are at times “bizarre”

In the 1960s, having discovered a deep affection for the material, the artist Stephen Antonakos transformed his SoHo home into a kaleidoscopic fever dream.

Novel collaborations with countries of origin allow objects in private U.S. collections to be repatriated and head for the Met on loan.

The model—already deployed in San Francisco, Helsinki and London—aims to protect creative communities from rampant real estate speculation and development

Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction

The case for not filling up every minute of your day

The US Supreme Court refused to clear the Postal Service to enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots for the congressional midterm elections, rebuffing the Trump administration’s request to interve...

Why does a POTUS barred from running again have nearly $1B in campaign funds? What will he do with the money?

What happens when machines surpass the most brilliant human minds? Mathematicians are finding out

Occupants of “houses to die for” say the advantages go beyond quiet neighbors.

The Musée Jacquemart-André will show works by the Venetian master, who was revered by artists including Fragonard, Cézanne and Delacroix

New solutions found to picture-hanging problems

The oldest museum of its kind in the nation, it has inspired generations of science enthusiasts. Drexel must find a way to preserve it.

The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.

Galliano, a fashion industry giant championed by Anna Wintour, was found guilty of a hate crime for his antisemitic outbursts in 2011.

On Nov. 27, 1945, the Jameses bought 400 Slinkies to Gimbels and they sold out in 90 minutes. A toy craze was born.

"Mississippi Fountain", originally created for an office tower near the river in collaboration with the architect Gordon Bunshaft, will be installed at the museum’s Beaux Arts entrance this autumn

In the Bronx, NYC will unearth its first waterway to alleviate flooding and pollution — a test case as it scrambles to adapt to a changing climate.

A vivid show of 19th and 20th century Hindu devotional prints showcases the country’s genius for aesthetic abundance.

A riveting exhibition of photographs of homes by Gerrit Rietveld unearths a mastery, beyond furniture design, of “a new way of living.”

The Kunsthistorisches Museum says that ‘Portrait of an Old Man’, previously banished to a storeroom without a firm attribution, is in fact by the leading Renaissance artist

The fellowship, supported by the founders of the Klesch Collection, is looking for an early-career researcher ‘redefining how art history is studied in the age of artificial intelligence and digital t...

The Wildlife Conservation Society confirms a river otter has been spotted in the Bronx for the first time in a century.

Aimee Lee learned to make hanji with Korean masters. Now she practices their traditional technique in the United States.

The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field

The High Renaissance master’s “Madonna of St Sebastian” shows off its colours after nearly four years of treatment

Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory is—that a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director.

Archaeologists in Carnac, northwest France, have used aerial drones to identify previously unknown stones buried beneath the surface

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms

The pedestrian overpass over the Bronx River Parkway to the New York Botanical Garden is now a fully ADA-compliant ramp with handrails, landings, and stairs.