Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black ... the freedom fighter of 18th-century Jamaica, a self ...

Attention can also be a state more than a deliberate action, a “relaxed distribution of focus,” as Claire Bishop, a professor ...

New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait ... the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the boy was ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

A small coastal village in the UK does not look like much at first glance, but upon deeper exploration the remains of events ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in the 18th century before its revival as a spiritual tool in the 1970s.

Former President Donald Trump has floated using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport undocumented immigrants if he’s elected, a law giving the president broad powers to detain foreign ...

She understands the DNA of old buildings and knows how to adapt them for 21st-century use. Look at her Neue Galerie in New York, and what she’s suggesting for the Frick Collection.’ (Her practice will ...

His vow to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” which he apparently plans to do by invoking an 18th-century law previously used during times of war.

This year marks the Boston Palestine Film Festival’s 18th season presenting a selection ... Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Regent Theatre, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre.