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At this outdoor folk-music festival in rural Texas, you’re not a “Kerrvivor” unless you stay till the end
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Afloat with Fly Boats and Leggers
Enthusiasts are rediscovering the vast system of narrow canals that connects England’s byways and backways
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Before works go on tour during a three-year museum renovation, there’s lots of sprucing up and packing
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Coming from a long line of tortured but brilliant makeup artists, Michael Westmore has put the past behind him, boldly going where no one has gone before
A new generation of photographers is pushing the artistic possibilities of the simple, old-fashioned technique of taking pictures through a hole in a box
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Or maybe not. America’s most grueling adult tricycle competition is tough on riders and equipment alike
Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real “Wild West”
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For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals
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George Mason: Forgotten Founder, He Conceived the Bill of Rights
This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution
Squaring the Circle Is No Piece of Pi
Mathematicians have sliced, and now supercomputers have crunched, but the mystery of pi goes on and on and…
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Long considered black devils with wings, these bats today are stealing hearts – and mangoes – across Australia
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Three Smithsonian astronomers run a worldwide news service about what is happening overhead
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe
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