In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Spirit Plaza is home to two of Detroit’s most iconic public artworks: “ The Spirit of Detroit” and “ Monument to Joe Louis,” ...

The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island is preparing to receive thousands of images and negatives by the iconic artist who defied 19th-century gender norms.

Mario Moore's bold portraits explore the nature of veneration, self-determination, and the continuum of history.

Ada Lovelace was a pioneer of computing and she loved the new technology of photography too. These pictures are now worth ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.

The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...

On her last trip to Gulu, Mbabazi delivered large, framed copies of the portraits to those who posed for them. Mbabazi hopes the photos will be exhibited publicly, to help change how the women are ...

No matter what genre you prefer, summer always offers a veritable literary bounty. This year, Benedict Nguyễn’s “deeply ...

Reeder (Dust Bowl Girls) describes how over the course of the 19th century, women excluded from male-only universities were increasingly able to enter the medical profession via newly established ...

The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters ...

The only self-portrait by Clara Peeters may smash the 17th-century Flemish still life painter's auction record next month at ...