If ever there was a synagogue that’s earned the right to throw itself a birthday shindig, it’s this elegant and intriguing ...

An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

Mr. Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Voice of America. He reported ...

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As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

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Both governments need to more explicitly link or condition the U.S. relationship to their own global and regional political, ...

The L.A. Phil opens a Hollywood Bowl season filled with Russian music as Thomas Sondergard conducts and pianist Kirill ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

Incentives matter in other kinds of conflict, too. Pirates of the 18th century were also keen to avoid fighting. Not only was ...

I can completely understand the history of the symbol. However, that history was erased the minute the Nazis took it over,” ...

Europe extracted resources from vast territories across the globe during certain periods of history, Igor Shishkin, an expert ...