Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

Ten years after 'Still Alice' the film’s co-writer/director tells the story of his ailing partner’s own heartbreaking ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...