A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a ...

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

Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

When Robert Prevost took the name Leo XIV after being elected pope on 8 May, much was read into the reference this made to Leo XIII, a late 19th-century ... s 1518-20 group portrait of Pope ...

Today, however, he is hailed as the “Chinese Matisse,” with the 2020 sale of a rare group portrait ... in the “Japonisme” of the late 19th century, when a fervor for Japanese art ...

By STEVE PFARRER For the Gazette Stephen Platt, who teaches 19th and 20th century Chinese history at the University of ...

The commemoration of Decoration Day, or, as it increasingly became known, Memorial Day, continued through the late 19th and early 20th century as an informal patriotic holiday. After World War I, the ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

The Derby received scant attention on its first running in 1780 but went on to become, in one famous opinion, the fundamental ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

What is art without truth—and truth may be found in the tantalizing little details. Three wonderfully truthful artists ...