The National Gallery's "Paris 1874" exhibit and the Museum of the Bible's first public viewing of the Megiddo Mosaic both ...

Boy Scouts of America is aiming to compensate hundreds of former scouts who were sexually abused by selling its artwork ...

As the holiday season approaches, the D.C. area transforms into a bustling haven of festive markets, each offering unique ...

Michael Albert originally studied the art of business, but it wasn’t long before he decided instead to delve into the business of art. “I didn’t study art formally,” Albert, 58, a new American pop ...

While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

In 2017, the retired art historian Robert W. Cherny found himself unwittingly thrust into the maelstrom of a national controversy. Amid a public battle over whether a series of murals — some of which ...

People are unlikely to change their vote because of a catchy campaign song or one musician's endorsement, but according to ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American Leadership. She is a two-time former fellow of the Winterthur Museum, Garden ...

John and Abigail Adams moved into a partially completed White House in late 1800. Construction started eight years earlier, ...

No matter one’s politics, there can be little doubt among rational people that Donald Trump is the greatest falsifier who ...

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) is a well-known American painter of jolly boatmen who transported furs and other cargo on rafts along the Missouri and ...

It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, or in 1789, when George Washington took office as the United States’ first president. According to Harry R. Rubenstein, an emeritus ...