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Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Here, architectural photographer Ty Cole picks eight of ...

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Wayne Higby, director of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum and a longtime ceramic artist and educator, will receive the Smithsonian Visionary Award for ...

An inscription on a brick links the aqueduct's construction to Gaius Valerius Constans, a second-century brickmaker from ...

In late January, while on a short trip to Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to tour inside the Smithsonian Castle, now closed for a major renovation expected to last several years. Completed in ...

Washington DC attracts millions of visitors every year, but behind the iconic monuments and must-see museums, there’s a ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

As we await a revised list of properties the GSA deems “non-core,” a critic ponders the fate of Washington’s historic ...

Maiden Castle, located in Dorset ... The circumstances of his "sacrifice" burial, as explored in the Smithsonian Channel's documentary Mystic Britain, suggest a possible ritual sacrifice linked ...