How do you fashion modern galleries to showcase objects from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Visitors find out starting ...

In the 19th century, an art form known as lithophanes was all the rage in Western Europe. These thin engravings were usually made from translucent materials like porcelain or wax. When backlit, a ...

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Check out a new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art on 18th-century European art, enjoy the music at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's Solar Concert Series or watch the cars at the Pittsburgh ...

A previously unknown musical manuscript, possibly by Frederic Chopin, was discovered in a New York library, marking the first such find since 1930, though its authenticity remains debated. (AP ...

The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.

Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn Gustave Courbet’s “The Source of the Lison” was lost in a forgotten box for over a century. Now it’s the centerpiece of an ...

A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness.

A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.