Art

In the summer of 1941, the accomplished African American artist Jacob Lawrence traveled to New Orleans. Though this was his first time visiting the South, he had spent his career completing more than 60 panels...

Eleven months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the United States’ subsequent entrance into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered to Congress in his State of the...

Before the Spanish colonization of Central and South America, the continents were inhabited by thriving civilizations. The Mayans, Aztecs and Olmecs were among the many societies that lived in Mesoamerica for...

When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte was serving as a soldier in the Royal Army and rose swiftly through the ranks, until becoming general at the age of 24. In November of 1799,...

Surely everyone knows the legend of the werewolf. A half man, half beast that transforms once a month–on a full moon–into its most dangerous self. The original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Werewolves have...

Since the time of Leonardo da Vinci, the “Salvator Mundi,” or ‘Savior of the World,’ has been the artist’s most copied work. His pupils and art students created many different versions, but da...

“Emily in Paris” is an American comedy-drama (dramedy?!) on Netflix about a twenty-something workaholic named Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) who is suddenly uprooted from her life in Chicago and sent off to...

This semester has, more likely than not, been exceptionally challenging for many students. First-year students who would normally be relishing in their first taste of freedom away from home now find themselves...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is as American of an institution as the White House, the Senate or Faneuil Hall. This year is a special one in particular for the Met, as 150 years ago today they opened their...

The Hagia Sophia, or “Holy Wisdom,” in Istanbul, Turkey was, for centuries, at the heart of the Christian Byzantine Empire. Then it was also the heart of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Today it remains the...