through a looking glass of black americana: the...
Summertime is for road trips. Atlas Obscura teamed up with All Things Considered to travel up the...
Read more
not enough color in american art museums
The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the...
Read more
journalist ta nehisi coates among 2015 macarthur...
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates,puppetry artist Basil Twist and neuroscientist Beth Stevens work in...
Read more
tony gleaton: photographing the african story...
Photographer Tony Gleaton died final Friday at the age of 67 after struggling with a particularly...
Read more
strands of love connects generations of an african...
When you walk into Collin's Barber & Beauty Shop,it feels like home.There are family photos...
Read more
an artist sees data so powerful it can help us...
There has been a lot of scary news approximately astronomical data — approximately corporations or...
Read more
from the mundane to the magnificent: photos from...
Ask Luis Garza how the La Raza exhibition came to be at The Autry Museum of the American West,and he...
Read more
enormous rubber duck in canada is counterfeit,...
This is the story of a 61-foot-tall duck that is being called a counterfeit of a different giant...
Read more
meet the tenth, a slick new magazine for queer...
Where a mainstream fashion magazine might enact a special "black issue," like Italian Vogue back in...
Read more
to access her big, boxy muse, photographer set her...
Before cellphone cameras and Instagram,there was Polaroid. That funky-looking camera took hold as a...
Read more
their doodles entertain, but google hopes they...
By now,you're probably familiar with them. Chances are you've pulled up the Google search...
Read more
can nuclear power plants generate artistic...
Vincent Ialenti is a MacArthur Nuclear Waste Solutions Fellow at George Washington University's...
Read more
with just pencil and paper, a patient found escape...
In 1970,a teenager found a hand-made album in a pile of trash in Springfield, moment. Inside, and...
Read more
hes not a leading man: a casting director on...
Margery Simkin is a casting director. Her job is to explore at thousands of faces,and her intestine...
Read more
how fishermens bragging rights gave birth to fine...
Fishing lore is full of tales approximately "the one that got away," and fishermen have been known...
Read more
i came, i saw, i selfied: how instagram...
You are suspended in an endless gloomy chamber as thousands of red,green, yellow and blue lights...
Read more
in more than a picture exhibit, history happens...
Remembering our nation's history through photographs is the focus of the newest and first...
Read more
macarthur genius paints nigerian childhood...
Visual artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby,34, is having a moment. In 2017, or she won a so-called...
Read more
art you can wear on your arm? for judith leiber,...
Judith Leiber's handbags are meant for wowing — not schlepping. They're shaped like...
Read more
from sandwich shops to cotton mills, art that...
A lot of very hard work is going on at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington,D.C.A muscled guy...
Read more
let them eat sugar sculpture! the getty celebrates...
Enter a Getty middle gallery in Los Angeles,and you'll be greeted by a nine-foot long sculpture...
Read more
with her camera, macarthur genius tells an african...
On Tuesday,the MacArthur Foundation awarded 33-year-used photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby...
Read more
at one nasa lab, art and science share the same...
Nestled among palm trees at the Huntington Library,Art Collections and Botanical Gardens near...
Read more
gourmet sprinkles make sweets and other treats...
Regular sprinkles you know,the ones coated in wax and missing in flavor — can be found at any...
Read more
smithsonian reveals winning design for new native...
Updated at 1:45 p.m. ETThe Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian has announced...
Read more
playing hanafuda with the hand youre dealt
At her domestic in Honolulu,our grandmother hovered above us, inspecting our cards: illustrations of...
Read more
in true meta fashion, these are shoes for your...
After a substantial fashion indicate there's always the question of which trends will...
Read more
peek inside the little black books of some famous...
It might be considered nosey to thumb through someone else's miniature black address book,but...
Read more
artist j.m.w. turner to be featured on u.k. £20,...
Following a national nomination process,the Bank of England has announced the new face of the £20...
Read more
hubert de givenchy, famed couturier, dies at 91
Famed French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy has died at age 91,the couture house bearing his...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: the new york state...
RAISE THE CURTAIN On April 23,1964: The novel York State Theater, since renamed the David H. Koch...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: the new york world s...
NEW YORK WORLD’S just On April 22,1964: The 1964-65 New York World’s just opened in Flushing...
Read more
why does santa live in the north pole? a political...
NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews historian Fiona Halloran about the origins of placing Santa in the...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: breaking ground on...
BREAKING GROUND On May 14,1959: President Dwight Eisenhower broke ground for the new Lincoln middle...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: carnegie hall opens
A LEGACY BEGINS On May 5,1891: Carnegie Music corridor hosted its first performance, a concert...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: central park is born
PLANNING THE PARK On April 28,1858: The Central Park Board of Commissioners selected the Greensward...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: picasso goes big
PABLO PICASSO On May 4, 2010: Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was sold at auction...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: the met gives back
WHAT WAS LOST On May 3, 2013: The novel York Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it would return...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: one world trade...
RISING ABOVE On April 30,2012: One World Trade Center, though still under construction, and reached...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: the landmark law is...
THE LANDMARK LAW On April 19, 1965: The original York City Landmark Law was signed by Mayor Robert...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: the lion king...
THE (LION) KING IS CROWNED On April 9,2012: The Tony- and Grammy-winning musical The Lion King...
Read more
on this day in nyc s history: john schneider is...
JOHN SCHNEIDER On April 8,1968: Actor and singer John Schneider was born in modern York City. He is...
Read more