For decades, this Mexican artist has embraced eye-popping whimsy — giant pears atop buildings and hands as chairs. At 89, ...

During my many trips to Northern Italy, I've fallen in love with nearby alternatives to Venice like Treviso, Asolo, Vicenza, ...

At 15, Peter Matthiessen began “scribbling” essays and poetry, saying that it “restores your balance and your sanity.” ...

Renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, a prominent figure of American architecture from the 1980s through present day, has ...

Cleveland Museum of Art has brought together 25 works — paintings, drawings, antiquities — that trace the evolution of ...

When you think of clothing silhouettes that evoke power and presence, 1980s-era padded shoulders might come to mind, but across the centuries, billowing sleeves were a courtly status symbol.

There’s nothing like a grand railway station to fire the imagination and stoke the spirit of adventure. And don’t we have ...

A tribute to the genius of a Renaissance mind, a positively fishy story of coastal design and more well-built selections.

Nothing speaks of greatness as much as the Renaissance period does. Filled with grandeur, classical elements, magnificence, and elegance, this artistic and architectural movement swept through Europe ...

Section 1. Purpose. The Founders, in line with great societies before them, attached great importance to Federal civic architecture. They wanted America’s public buildings to inspire the American ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...