Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist is a evocative portrait of poverty, justice, and survival in a fractured society. It remains as ...

An exhibit at the Morgan Library celebrates "a lively mind," including with items like a letter she wrote with every word spelled backward.

Our art critic visits the Smithsonian American Art Museum to get a closer look at the Trump administration’s attack on DC ...

Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England,” makes the 18th century artist’s prison drawings and vivid illustrations seem modern ...

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...