Waiting to enter the Columbia River Bar in early January 1853, the barkentine Vandalia was heading in from San Francisco, with Capt. Edward H. Beard, of Vancouver, Washington, as master. The vessel ...

Owen Gent is an artist from Bristol who has been working as an illustrator for over ten years. Owen is known for his ...

Dalí described it as “a landscape … whose rocks were lighted by a transparent and melancholy twilight.” The painting is small—about the size of a laptop screen. It’s dominated by shades of brown, ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

‘That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!’ by Sufjan Stevens Many of the songs in Sufjan Stevens’ extensive Songs For Christmas have a level of melancholy to them. Lyrically, “That Was the Worst ...

For military men and women deployed to areas around the world, past and present, the holidays can be a time to simply survive rather than celebrate, the separation from family, friends and ...