In 1823, civic-minded merchants met in a tavern to establish a public library, later soliciting book donations with a ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

Miles J. Unger writes on art, books, and culture for the Economist, and for many years he was a contributing writer to the New York Times. He is the author of Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the ...

In Julian Davidson’s 1889 wood engraving, a ten-oar barge carrying formally dressed couples rides perilously low in the ...

Are you wondering where to go for world-class cultural experiences and outdoor adventures without the big-city crowds? Our ...

The Newport Art Museum (NAM) has announced its exhibition calendar for the summer 2025 season, featuring a dynamic selection of artists and exhibitions. The season will showcase treasured works from ...

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) challenges visual documentation that excluded Black subjects from a ...

Homer’s galleries and public art spaces celebrate the increasing daylight hours and quick approach towards spring and summer ...

As much as technicality can elevate an artist’s work, it’s the connection, the emotion and the story being told that ultimately resonates and makes a piece so perfectly human.

That reignited my desire to paint and I’ve been painting ever since.” For the past five years, she and Homer artist and friend, Cindy Nelson, have been getting together on Fridays to paint, rotating ...

From the Selma Burke Art Center in the 1970s to the Shadow ... A selection of original Winslow Homer engravings from Harper’s augments the exhibit. The exhibit opens Sat., March 1, and runs ...

In the years since, it has been bestowed sparingly — if a song has moved at least 10 million equivalent units by combining sales and streaming numbers and if an artist or label requests ...