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L to R: Jacket, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Spanish, 1871–1949), 1920s–30s; Evening Dress, Madeleine Vionnet (French, 1876–1975), spring 1931; Evening Dress, Gilbert Adrian (American, 1903–1959), fall 1945

Couture Covering 96 Years of Fashion Is Coming to the Met’s Costume Institute

A little-known couture collector has gifted the museum 165 items drawn from her collection of approximately 15,000 pieces

Volcanic deposits found at Pompeii could yield insights on Vesuvius' future

Why Archaeologists and Volcanologists Are Clashing Over Excavations at Pompeii

Volcanologist Roberto Scandone argues that enthusiasm for archaeology has yielded an “act of vandalism to volcanology”

Judy Chicago at the 2017 Yes! Gala at Brooklyn Museum

Judy Chicago Retrospective to Look Beyond ‘The Dinner Party’

The largest exhibition of Chicago’s work to date at the de Young Museum in San Francisco will highlight the diversity of the artist’s oeuvre

No pizza rats here

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London Signs Up as First ‘National Park City’

The city has commited to upping its greenspace to 50 percent and making the urban landscape healthier, greener and more beautiful by 2050

A rendering of the 363-foot Saturn V projection

Future of Space Exploration

Watch the Apollo 11 Anniversary Show That Was Projected Onto the Washington Monument

The immersive experience combined full-motion projection-mapping artwork and archival footage

The European brown bear hasn't roamed Britain since the Middle Ages—and possibly even earlier.

Wolves and Bears Are Being Returned to a Rare Patch of Ancient Woodland in Britain

The Bristol Zoological Society is launching an animal exhibit that will see the predators share a U.K. habitat for the first time in 1,000 years

The app presents users with 100 works of art drawn from the museum's collection of more than 15,000 artifacts

Atlanta Museum’s ‘Dating’ App Matches Visitors With Artwork

The High Museum of Art creates tour routes based on users’ likes

The Charles Dickens Museum Acquires ‘Lost’ Portrait of the Author as a Young Man

The 1843 painting by Margaret Gillies surfaced at an auction in South Africa in 2017

Sunset in the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"

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Minnesota and Wisconsin Are Beefing About Who Has More Lakes

Minnesota, obviously, is the winner, but it turns out there is no actual, technical definition of what constitutes a lake

After a queen ant successfully mates with multiple males, she chews off her wings, returns to the ground and starts a new colony

Swarms of Flying Ants Overtaking Great Britain Show Up as Rain on Radar

Once a year, the winged insects take to the skies and engage in mating rituals

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Yosemite Gets Its Historic Place Names Back

A settlement with a former concessions operator means Camp Curry, the Ahwahnee Hotel and other iconic sites can use their original names again

L to R: Preparatory sketch for "Scylla" and 1938 oil painting of "Scylla"

Tate Acquires Archive of Works by Little-Known Surrealist Ithell Colquhoun

The collection, featuring some 5,000 sketches, drawings and commercial artworks, promises to instigate a ‘re-evaluation of her whole career’

Researchers previously believed that traces of animal fat left in pottery stemmed from feasts held by Stonehenge's builders.

Did Stonehenge’s Builders Use Lard to Move Its Boulders Into Place?

Animal fat residue found on ceramic vessels suggests the ancient Britons who built the monument greased their wooden sledges with lard

This Street in Wales Is Officially the World’s Steepest

Ffordd Pen Llech, a winding road in the historic town of Harlech, has claimed the Guinness World Record—but not everyone is happy about it

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South Dakota’s City of Presidents Unveils Obama Statue

The new life-size bronze depicts the 44th president waving to the crowd and holding his daughter Sasha’s hand

The perpetrator rips pages in half horizontally

A Literary Vandal Is Ripping Pages Out of Books and Putting Them Back on Shelves

The so-called ‘book ripper’ has targeted more than 100 volumes at a library and charity bookshop in the English town of Herne Bay

Thanks to Bly's efforts, conditions at the women's asylum greatly improved

Women Who Shaped History

A Nellie Bly Memorial Is Coming to Roosevelt Island

The journalist famously wrote a six-part exposé cataloging the 10 days she spent at an asylum on Blackwell’s Island

The bombs likely lie in an unexplored 22-hectare section of the archaeological site

Pompeii Is Home to Multiple Undetonated World War II Bombs

A statement by the Archaeological Museum of Pompeii assures the public that there is ‘no risk for visitors’

The historic shipwrecks of Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary provide habitat for birds and other wildlife.

New National Marine Sanctuary Will Protect Maryland’s ‘Ghost Fleet’

Hundreds of abandoned vessels have merged with the environment in Mallows Bay

Olafur Eliasson, "The Cubic Structural Evolution Project," 2004

Art Meets Science

Consider the Nature of Perception at Olafur Eliasson’s New Show

Tate Modern retrospective features some 40 works pulled from the artist’s decades-long career

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