The Rurik and Romanov dynasties of Russia have shaped modern-day Russia’s land and people. From the first dynasty, which began around the 780s, to 1917, when the Romanov dynasty fell to the Bolshevik ...

Tyler Perry's Straw — Taraji P. Henson is a struggling single mom with a sick kid; Sherri Shepherd is the bank teller who ...

Atahualpa, the younger son of former Incan ruler Huayna Capac, had just deposed his half-brother Huascar and was in the midst of reuniting his kingdom when Pizarro arrived in 1531, with the ...

On this day in 1940, near Montignac, France, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings are discovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following their dog down a narrow ...

After 22 years of writing about the people of Manitoulin, our Now and Then correspondent Petra Wall is hanging up her quill, at least as far as the Now and Then column is concerned. The Expositor is ...

In 1908, the Russian industrialist and insatiable art collector Sergei Shchukin opened the painting galleries of his residence in the Trubetzkoy Palace to the public every Sunday.

From the outset, by titling their exhibition “At Face Value," the curators Robert Curcio and Leah Oates put into play a dynamic tension between appearance and subtext, the spoken message and the ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

CT Senate passes two-year, $55.8 billion budget before midnight; sent to Gov. Lamont for his signature CT town considering environmental toll of gas stations says no more for now. It may be state ...