But research also finds every movie of the past 30 years with the biggest production budget was directed by a man, leading to renewed allegations of misogyny

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthol...

Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic England still holds the negatives, the prints and the scans. What the public lost, in early Sept...

By Maki Saito Years later, people would still speak of that morning in Paris. It was June 21, 1937. The auditorium of the Comedie des Champs-Elysees h

Housed in a former tile warehouse, the African Futures Institute’s HQ is a new platform for ideas, encounters and architectural vision

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In wake of her tragic passing today, we revisit our 2024 interview with the renegade and eternally punk-rock conceptual artist.

History buffs heading to Greece are mostly drawn to the country’s wealth of classical temples and amphitheatres. But now the culture ministry has opened a stunning, restored palace from the Byzantine ...

Once, at the gym with a physicist friend, I was struck by how no one else in the room had any idea that while she was sweating on the treadmill with a blank stare into space, she was doing advanced mathematics working out the logic of black holes. Another time, on the train with a poet friend, none of the other passengers could have known that behind her faraway look she was doing the invisible labor that would eventually win her the Pulitzer. “Artists are always working, though they may not seem as if they are,” the visionary theater director… read article

Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, was an artist with an innovative approach to design and education. The Corita Art Center, a project of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and prom...

The massive bovines, each maneuvered by three puppeteers, will roam through Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn

An exhibition invites visitors to discover a genre of painting that developed on the Korean Peninsula between the 18th and 20th centuries: representations of books and objects painted on folding screens.

In her first museum survey, the Bay Area artist's vibrant, musical, and poetic world is on display, reflecting her own memory with collective histories in America.

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

A wave of museum thefts is exposing the vulnerabilities of institutions struggling to protect irreplaceable collections after years of underfunding.

Alma Thomas (1891–1978) is a singular figure in twentieth-century American art. After retiring from a long career as a schoolteacher, she developed a distinctive form of abstraction defined by bold pa...

He had me at the name. Richard J. Powell has written a gorgeous book about Black artists and their use of color, and every page leaps up at you, jolting you into attention.

Cassatt’s mural, completed for the 1893 World’s Fair in Jackson Park, was an impressive feat for its era. “Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism,” which features 70 of her paintings and prints, explores w...

Park officials told The Denver Post last week that they have been conducting a thorough inventory of human remains and culturally significant objects in Mesa Verde’s collection over the past two years...

As pressures bore down on an American institution, its secretary held firm.

Poet Kevin Young, director since 2021 of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, has been placed on leave.

Duke University’s 850,000 specimens will move to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thirty designers and 120 models take the runway as Indigenous New York Fashion Week lands on the official CFDA calendar.

Indigenous leaders say the US government’s decision to close the sites was made without tribal consultation.

Bunch, the first Black person and first historian to lead the institution, said he has ‘mixed emotions’ about departing.

David Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist, purchased the abstract sculpture for display at the National Gallery of Art.