The first Monday in May marks the opening of The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ ...

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The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

Sitting at a cultural crossroads between Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Marrakech has always been an incubator of ...

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An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...

An intriguing portrait of a black man in the uniform of a military bandsman and wearing a Waterloo medal drew strong competition after emerging at an auction in East Sussex.

He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K ... Trump needed to practice the art of the deal to get a portrait of Polk into the Oval Office.

Major underwriting for Season 1 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by Robert Lehman Foundation, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...