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You Can Own Mark Twain’s Connecticut Farmhouse
The author gifted the property to his daughter in 1909. Not long after, tragedy struck
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The Romance of Fermat’s Last Theorem
Fermat left a lot of theorems lying around. Mathematicians proved them all–except one
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Baltimore Quietly Removes Four Confederate Monuments
Mayor Catherine Pugh said the statues “needed to come down”
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Artists Can Now Buy One of the World’s Blackest Blacks
Singularity Black is not the blackest hue out there, but it is the darkest color currently available to the general public
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Cloth Smuggled Out of Syrian Prison Bears Witness to Atrocities Wrought by the Civil War
The U.S. Holocaust Museum has received the cloth scraps, which bears the names of 82 inmates written in chicken bones, rust, and blood
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Prince Now Has His Own Shade of Purple
The Pantone Color Institute has debuted “Love Symbol #2,” a deep purple based on the late star’s custom-made piano
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If You Think ‘Bambi’ Seems Too Mature For Kids, You’re Not Wrong
The popular novel was even a Book-of-the-Month Club selection
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Big Ben to Fall Silent During Four-Year Renovation Project
It is the longest time that Big Ben has been paused during its 157-year history
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WWII Anti-Fascist Film Goes Viral After Charlottesville
“Don’t Be A Sucker,” which was released in 1943, urged viewers to take a stand against divisive, prejudicial rhetoric
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World’s Oldest Man, a Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113
Candy maker Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and celebrated his bar mitzvah 100 years after turning 13
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‘Casey at the Bat’ Leaves a Lot of Unanswered Questions
Was there a Casey? Where did he strike out? Does it really matter?
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A Virtual Exhibit Unites Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers
The global collaboration features five of the six surviving canvases
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Cremation Rates Reach All-Time High in the U.S.
The practice has surpassed burial rates for the second year in a row
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Ruth Pfau, “Mother of Leprosy Patients,” Has Died
Over five decades, the German-born physician and nun treated thousand of patients and got the leprosy epidemic under control in Pakistan
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Two ‘Lost’ Alberto Giacometti Drawings Found in Antique Dealer’s Collection
The works were “buried under piles of dust-covered antiques, paintings and drawings”
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Georgia College Gifted Farm Where Flannery O’Connor Composed Southern Gothic
The author’s alma mater will take over and maintain the Savannah-born author’s final home
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New Art Exhibit Remembers Trashy Tabloid Culture of 2000s
The Brooklyn show highlights art inspired by the age when celebrity scandals and gossip reigned supreme
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Tate Modern’s Modigliani Exhibition Ventures Into Virtual Reality
The upcoming retrospective couples works by the famed modernist with the museum’s first VR experience
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The Centuries-Old Tradition of Military Quilting Is Getting Its First Exhibition in the U.S.
The display celebrates the art and craft of soldiers at war and offers insight into life in the military
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Three Things to Know About the Louvre’s History
The home of the Mona Lisa has a history that’s almost 1000 years long
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