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One drive down Route 9 in Seaville, and you surely cannot miss Feathered Nest, a unique shop that focuses on “gifts, garden ...
A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion ...
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African ...
At 180 feet long, Hunsecker’s Mill stands as Lancaster County’s longest single-span covered bridge, a testament to 19th-century engineering that somehow manages to be both practical and poetic.
In the Book Pages this week, there’s something going on in YA, romance and fantasy. Plus, an author event at LibroMobile.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will present “Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” this fall, the ...
The Boston Athenaeum’s newest installation, ‘Exhibiting China,’ will reunite, for the first time in 175 years, five portraits by Chinese artist Lamqua that were a part of the Athenaeum’s first ...
When artist Amy Sherald canceled her LGBTQ-inclusive Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery show “American Sublime” last month ...
A remarkable 19th century oil painting was discovered in the oddest place just miles from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Using 19th-century paintings and photographs, the exhibit takes viewers on a virtual tour of Parisian sites, such as Notre Dame, Eiffel Tour, Notre Dame, the Louvre, and the bohemian enclave of ...
“Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the first time ever—William J. Wilson's idea.
The notion that Viking helmets had horns originated in 19th-century paintings, and it was repeated in Hollywood movies.