Clair Dinhut's family home is no ordinary house: it's a 9th-century water mill in France, complete with original stone floors ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

This year’s colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting ...

Panama's reputation as merely a passageway between oceans understates its rich cultural tapestry. Beyond the engineering ...

Mary Liz Stewart, who founded the Underground Railroad center with her husband, Paul, in the 1990s, said the idea for the museum project came when she was looking for quotes by Black Americans for a ...

Long unseen and known only through a 19th-century photograph, the painting Preparing Coffee reemerges with a £1–1.5M estimate ...

In the 19th century, the French demanded compensation for the former enslavers of the Haitian people, rather than the other way around. Just as the legacy of slavery in the United States has created a ...

Some 70 years after her death, however, she is finally being recognized for her achievements as possibly Canada’s first Black ...

In the 97-year history of the Academy Awards, 611 films have been nominated for the top prize, best picture. Only 23 of those ...

Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th ...

The musty store, called Where the Monkey Hits, is a surprising fashion hotspot in modern-day Chile given its tradition, claiming to be the oldest hat maker in South America.

M.A. Lee’s novel of a 20th century Korean family exposes the fault lines in relationships and borders that are not drawn on a map. After an arranged marriage takes a young Korean woman to Japan ...