Manet's 'Olympia' Comes to America for the Very First Time
The painting scandalized 19th-century viewers and heralded the dawn of modern art
X-Wing Model From Original 'Star Wars' Movie Found in a Garage
The 20-inch miniature is going to auction, where bidding starts at $200,000
Ernest Hemingway and His Wife Survived Two Plane Crashes Just One Day Apart
The novelist recounted the harrowing ordeal in a letter, which just sold for $237,055 at auction
A Time Capsule Opened Live on Stage Was Empty. Later, Treasures Emerged From the Silt
Found at West Point, the 200-year-old box concealed six silver coins and a medal
A Brief History of the Mug Shot
Police have been using the snapshots in criminal investigations since the advent of commercial photography
Virgil Quotation Found Etched on 1,800-Year-Old Roman Jar
Researchers say the ancient inscription is the first of its kind ever discovered
The 150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Transform the Abortion Debate
Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail
Without the First Folio, Half of Shakespeare's Plays Would Have Been Lost to History
The 400-year-old text presented the Bard's plays as serious literature, muddling the boundaries between popular culture and high art
Venus Williams Is Joining a New Push to Restore Nina Simone's Childhood Home
The singer-songwriter learned to play the piano in the 650-square-foot house
How Artists' Day Jobs Shape Their Craft
A new exhibition examines the generative relationship between work and creativity
Artificial Intelligence Identifies Long-Overlooked Raphael Masterpiece
A facial recognition analysis found that the faces in a mysterious painting are virtually identical to those in the artist's "Sistine Madonna"
Three Pioneering Scholars Who Died This Year
They believed that the stories of marginalized communities were worth chronicling
These Works Are Now in the Public Domain
The latest additions are a rich trove of books, films, songs and other works from 1927
Stephen Sondheim’s Lost College Musical Was Found Hidden in Plain Sight
Live recordings from "Phinney's Rainbow" had been sitting on a journalist's bookshelf for years
The Making of Steven Spielberg
"The Fabelmans" is a lightly fictionalized dramatization of the famous director's childhood
These Descendants Never Forgot the Story of the Last American Slave Ship
A new Netflix documentary follows the families of the "Clotilda" captives as they grapple with how their past informs their future
How Emmett Till's Mother Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
A new film dramatizes the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, who forced America to confront the brutality of her son's 1955 murder
These Are the Winners of the National Design Awards
This year, Cooper Hewitt honored innovators in climate change, clothing design and more
Is This the End of D.C.'s Most-Beloved Hidden Landmark?
The fate of the stones that were once a part of the U.S. Capitol has locals despondent
Excavations Shed Light on the Everyday Life of Pompeii's Middle Class
An ornate courtyard found in an otherwise humble home may have reflected the owners' aspirational vision of the future
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