Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a man in the rafters of the Metropolitan Opera.

Experts in New York, including a former curator of ancient art at the Metropolitan Museum, may have discovered a previously unknown Vincent van Gogh portrait of a fisherman. According to a report from ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

A river runs through it: Spokane, Washington, is a marvelous synthesis of city and wilderness, historic and contemporary that ...

Victoria Siddall, now in one of art’s most prestigious jobs, talks balancing family, work and the environmental impact of ...

Jan. 29.--At a largely attended public meeting held yesterday afternoon in the Board of Trade rooms it was announced that the small outstanding debt of the Subtropical Exposition had been funded ...

The Vatican Apostolic Library has tapped Dior's creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, Italian singer Jovanotti and Icelandic ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

Elimar’ could turn out to be a real masterpiece, but there’s no getting around the fact that in addition to not being ...

“Presence” does, however, have a little trouble setting itself up for success. It’s a matter of exposition, the stuff screenwriters typically crowbar into the beginning of a movie, with the ...