The holiday used to be all about trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. No more – and it could something to do with the…
A few musicians metaphorically took to the streets. But most fled for cover.
For decades, the alternative weekly's photographers served as the eyes of the streets, working with activists to document…
When artists destroy their works, it's usually to express their disdain for critics, dealers and curators. But does…
An algorithm named AICAN has been 'taught' the entire canon of Western art history – and now produces, titles…
Later this month, Christie's will be auctioning its first piece of AI art – a portrait created via machine learning.
Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered for being gay. A lawyer who helped implement hate crime legislation…
After the first moon landing, the feelings that propelled a unified national mission quickly dissipated. Could Armstrong…
The devastation of the recent earthquake and tsunami might be most visible in Palu, the capital city of Central Sulawesi.…
Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage was really a journey into the unknown. Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned…
Does Anne Moody's memoir represent how far we've come as a society. Or is it a stark reminder of how far we need…
To survive in 19th-century newsrooms, reporters would have to hustle to get by, even if it meant producing fakes, staging…
'Grease 2' – which, according to Kavanaugh's calendar, he saw on June 16, 1982 – is an example of the brand…
In Kenneth Burke's 'The War of Words,' the late rhetorical theorist picks apart the little ways news articles…
Famously feminized by the Nazis – and later used in prison cells to limit aggression in inmates – the color pink toes…
A disc-golf boom is coinciding with a ball-golf bust.
Social psychologists have been busy documenting the harmful effects that this brand of chivalry has on women. But are they…
Over the course of two years, a sociologist studied a group of affluent, white kids to see how they made sense of sensitive…
Through his art and his travels, 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the chaos of…
Since the Byzantine era, gossipy anecdotes about the mishaps of rulers and their inner circles have been compiled, shared…