Martin Johnson Heade painted the enigmatic “Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay” in the wake of the American Civil War.

In 2017, in the first year of the Obama administration, the First Couple selected two up-and-coming Black artists to paint their official portraits: POTUS went for Kehinde Wiley, and FLOTUS for Amy ...

Bob Dylan helped inform this iconic Simon and Garfunkel track, but the end results ultimately "horrified" songwriter Paul ...

The world knew Jimmy Carter as a president and humanitarian, but he also was a woodworker, painter and poet, creating a body ...

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

Yanktonai Dakota artist Oscar Howe started a rebellion against “gatekeepers” wanting to keep Native art in a slim “cultural” ...

The release launched a career that influenced the likes of David Bowie, Donna Summer, U2, Coldplay, Dr. Dre, Radiohead, Billie Eilish, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode.

They included a woman known as ‘Amazing Grace’ and another who became the world’s second oldest person. One was a groundbreaking neurosurgeon, another a beloved philanthropist and youth coach. These ...

Georgia O’Keeffe, Manhattan,1932. (© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C./Art Resource, N.Y.) O’Keeffe carves out an abstract geometry from ...

Plans to build the contentious Jefferson Parkway toll highway through Broomfield and Jefferson counties — part of a conspicuously missing segment in metro Denver’s 83-mile beltway — are set ...

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have reopened a portion of Highway 401, that included an offramp, Thursday after “significant congestion” caused by Boxing Day drivers. The OPP warned of ...