From samplers to sugar bowls, weathervanes to whistles, an engaging exhibition heralds the opening of the American Folk Art Museum's new home in Manhattan
When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers
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Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate
A new exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together in the South of France
It turns out the America portrayed by printmakers Currier and Ives was not all sleigh rides in the snow
Zane Grey went West, fell in love with the desert and redefined the modern cowboy novel
A new book and PBS television series trace the numerous traditions of folk and gospel, blues and zydecothat that shaped American music
For much of the 20th century, hoopsters from pro to pickup loved their Converse Chuck Taylor All stars
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New Yorkers didn't much care for the twin towers until a nimble Frenchman named Philippe Petit danced across a wire between them
Artist Alberto Giacometti's singular vision is celebrated in a special centennial exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art
One hundred years after the maestro's death, the Italian composer reigns, very operatically, in the hearts of music lovers everywhere
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