“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939.

An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

If a government wants to force a collective narrative upon the masses, arts, culture and media entities are necessary.

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...

President Donald Trump fired the National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet for being a “strong supporter” of diversity, ...

As the US celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026, there is no better place to be during this historic milestone than ...

"Our visitors need to recognize themselves and their culture in our galleries," said William R. Valerio, CEO of the Woodmere ...

The Trump White House blasted the Smithsonian for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives" in an exclusive email to ...

According to research, visitors to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich are among the most impressed in the world.

Louise Hellstrom was the rural 1920s Woodstock churchgoer’s bad dream, a sight to behold. Often portrayed in local art works ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, a generation of convention-defying American women left home behind to reinvent themselves in France. They painted and performed, published and protested, ...