Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

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The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will relocate and reopen its African American art galleries in October 2025. The new galleries will be centrally located near the Rivera Court, showcasing 50 ...

The exhibition will travel to seven other venues, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art (October 8-December 31) and the Orlando Museum of Art (January 27-May 13, 2007).

April 15 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include: -- Artist/inventor Leonardo da Vinci in 1452 -- Explorer James Clark Ross in 1800 -- Distiller Joseph E. Seagram ...

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, geographical and industrial change. Modern culture is indebted to photography ...

In one famous incident, ... The Virginia arm of that was an 1,800-man army under the command of Col. William Christian, ... It also spawned a famous phrase in American history. Before the war, one of ...

Head to bustling Bentonville for ROADSHOW finds at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art including an 1857 Queen’s Cup ascot race trophy, a 1956 Curta calculator type II and an Art Deco ...

Saddle up and discover the most famous cowboys who shaped the American Frontier, ... lawmen of the Old West, but his record was far from clean. Over the years, he was a pimp, a thief and a con artist; ...

Thomas Eakins, a realist painter who took the art world by storm, is famous for painting humans and situations with such realistic quality that they feel not like art, but rather images and ...

The house featured in the famous painting “American Gothic” by Grant Wood in Eldon, Iowa. Photo by David Howells/Corbis via Getty Images. Of course, the artist wasn’t finished.

He became the first African American to serve on the Bremerton School District Board in 1971, where he stayed for 20 years and led efforts to recruit teachers and staff from minority populations ...