The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s in the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum.

Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a ...

A local immigrant advocacy organization, Lighthouse, reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been present ...

Laleen Jayamanne and Namika Raby (Part I of this article appeared in The Island on Friday (31 Jan.) Women’s Mental Health: ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

(From left) Dr. Rachunliu (Chun) G. Kamei, Research Associate Stephen Mahony and Dr. Sara Ruane hold a Ophiophagus Salvatana at the Field Museum, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Researchers are ...

Avery Colvert, 14, wanted to do something special ... found her husband’s family photos, but the garage and the shed are gone, as is the room where the scholar spent much of his final days ...

We torture-test a dozen of the most popular text-to-image AI tools with a series of prompts designed to highlight their strengths and weaknesses. Here's how they stack up. I've been writing about ...

A Long Island student who came to Mastic Beach as a child while knowing very little of the country was nominated as a presidential scholar this ... “I want to learn something new every day ...