It wasn't that it was the first museum to attempt to “go digital.” It was that the Cleveland Museum...
The Harlem-based artist Maren Hassinger is known for work that spans performance, installation, sculpture...
For many, Isamu Noguchi is the guy who invented the classic mid-century coffee table — the one with...
As the 1951 Christmas season approached, Faith Bradford, a retired librarian, came to the Smithsonian...
Australian sculptor Ron Mueck thinks big. And his sculpture Big Man , sitting in a corner of the Smi...
At the turn of the 20th century, European art dominated the market—and the walls of world-class gall...
A cabinet of curiosities lies deep within Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , an art museum located in Copenhag...
February 16, 1864, should have been a happy day for Ernst Haeckel.On this day, the German Academy of...
It’s not what you’d expect from an art show. At the end of a long corridor, beyond a pulled-back hea...
Nine lives before Grumpy Cat ; way before Keyboard Cat played her first note, felines were revered b...
Even for someone unfamiliar with mustelid anatomy, the skeleton hanging above the stairwell in the d...
In 1961, it officially became illegal to give someone a tattoo in New York City. But Thom deVita did...
From Black Lives Matter to quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s bended knee, the Black Panthers’ political...
The event is called Sound Scene X and will give visitors the opportunity to hear and create unusual sound...
Markus Lüpertz has been showing his splashy German neo-expressionist paintings in Europe galleries a...
For the past 96 years, the annual Santa Fe Indian Market has been the largest cultural event in the South...
At first glance, the pair of musicians honored jointly at the National Museum of American History this...
He was familiar with the horrifying death 62 years ago of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American...
The black, tarry expanses, licks of flames and dense clouds of smoke so dominate The Disaster Paintings...
In 1982, Sharon Farmer hit the streets of Southeast Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia, camera gear in tow...