The two artefacts are being restituted as part of the museum's closure of its Benin gallery, which had been donated by the ...

Providence’s restaurants, bars, and thriving arts scene are a boon to the local economy—and promise a good time for visitors.

Standing at the top of the Empire State Building in the late December chill, Berenice Abbott knew she only had one chance. The photograph she planned to take required a 15-minute exposure, and this ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from ...

They had to leave the South to study medicine, and open their own clinics in New Orleans after no one would hire them. Now ...

A blind street musician performs in New York City, 1898. While New York never officially enacted an “ugly law,” it drafted one similar to those in other cities across the nation, as part of ...

Hidden in one of Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods, this serene garden now stands at the center of a fight between ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891, but what about the teenager ...

In an unexpected move, two new historic districts have been proposed for the area south of Prospect Park, once part of the ...

A richly extensive retrospective, “On Conformity” comprises 175 items: paintings, prints, photographs, posters, vintage ...

Few passersby on quiet Haven Court realize that a century ago, the land beneath their feet offered a revolutionary retreat: a ...

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the proposed districts of freestanding houses.