Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

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.

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Photos have a magical way of bringing the past to life. Whether it’s an iconic moment in history or a candid shot of a woman ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

468 pages : 23 cmWife no. 19 : the live et ordeals of a Mormon woman during the 19th century by Young, Ann Eliza 1844-1917 Verfasser ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

It’s a rebellion of collective memory that resurfaces as images in Cunha’s curated exhibition ‘Retratistas do Morro’ at ...

In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

Foto Féminas was born from my own frustrations as a Venezuelan woman and photographer. I began my photography studies in the ...

Souwer is a process of painting on the back of the glass, a technique brought by Muslim pilgrims in the late 19th century to Senegal and still very popular to this day. The subjects of reverse glass ...