Influenced by Caravaggio, a rare work by the Baroque artist Diana de Rosa's fetched nearly half a million dollars at ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, a generation of convention-defying American women left home behind to reinvent ...

The Biennial balances global perspectives with local voices proving the city remains a crossroads where art, history and ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Beneath William & Mary’s Robert M. Gates Hall, archaeologists this summer uncovered the near-complete 18th-century foundation of the Williamsburg Bray School, the university ...

By Gayle Converse During a time when social status meant everything, women of the 18th century literally made an indelible footprint on early American and global politics. Just as Alexandria’s wealthy ...

On June 21, Rutkowski will defy the odds once again by becoming a movie star. She and more than 100 friends and family members are scheduled to attend a private premiere of a documentary about her ...

Considering her scandalous reputation during her life, no one has slipped under history’s radar quite like Jane Digby. A shameless adventuress in the first degree, Digby’s story is full of ...

An excavation in the garden at the Heyward-Washington House in Charleston is unearthing artifacts that expand the history and stories told at the house museum.

But what we do know is that a woman named Rose Valland saved tens of thousands of works. Valland is the real-life heroine of “The Art Spy,” a curator at Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in the 1940s.

BELOIT -- Celebrating 25 years of "Finding Creativity Within," the Beloit Art Center is offering a wide variety of magnificent artistic displays this summer, while also celebrating a quarter century ...

In 1991, the remains of a woman were discovered on the early medieval foreshore of the Thames River. The skeletal remains were moved to the London Museum, where they were curated. However, the ...