The stark black-and-white compositions do what Mapplethorpe did best: transform the socially unacceptable into formalist art through meticulous attention to light, shadow and balance.

Architect Annabelle Selldorf took a light touch to a $220 million renovation of the beloved New York art museum.

"American Sublime," the sweeping Amy Sherald survey, arrives at the Whitney Museum in New York, bringing together almost 50 ...

Carrying buckets in one hand and cellphones turned to flashlight functions in the other hand, attorney Andre J. Hungerford and history buff James P. Barker found themselves hiking through Brookside ...

In the end, a group led by congressman and former president John Quincy Adams ensured Smithson’s vision was realized. Adams felt that the country was failing to live up to its early promise. He ...

The New-York Historical Society — rebranded the New York Historical, and the oldest museum in the city —has relaunched its ...

The first documented circular-saw patent in an English-speaking country was granted in 1777, two years before Babbitt's birth ...

The Greater Ridgewood Historical Society and the family of Helen Ries will gather to celebrate her life and legacy with the ...

America needs "third places" like our libraries more than we ever have, both functionally and philosophically.

Millie Vos is the secretary/treasurer of the Sheldon Historical Society and the director and a board member of the Sheldon ...

While the construction of the Erie Canal had many transformative effects on the Central New ... Historical Society in 1811,“ said Steph Adams, director of interpretation at the Erie Canal Museum.