This role prompted the most famous image of Lady Columbia, in John Gast’s 1872 painting American Progress. One of Lady Columbia’s most poignant roles came in the next decade, as the country ...

At a time when political polarization is making the metaphorical aisle between right and left feel more like a chasm, a modern opera offers a reminder that friendship, and a shared love for art ...

Among the accomplished and celebrated writers chosen for the festival are children's book authors Andrea Wang, who counts among her accolades a Newbery Honor, the Asian/Pacific American Award ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

China has hiked tariffs on U.S. goods to 125% and called more American hikes impractical and a "joke in the history of the ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

Charlotte Riordan, head of contemporary art at Lyon & Turnbull, holding a painting by the late John Byrne of The Beatles (Stewart Attwood/Lyon & Turnbull/PA) A rare painting of The Beatles by the ...

and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Paintings by the late John Byrne including a rare picture of The Beatles bought by the ...

“I’ve always loved Americana, and I loved American Westerns,” Taupin ... different and interesting light on the art of narrative song. For Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection was a near ...

Louisiana singer John Foster took it home on Monday night's "American Idol" with a song dear to many a Capital City resident — "Callin' Baton Rouge." "I haven't really shown America or the ...