As the Black Death swept across Europe, fear gave rise to desperation—and some believed salvation came through pain. Meet the ...

This is because they have a biological resistance to the plague that, unfortunately, other animals don’t. Before the Black Death fell upon Europe, arts such as painting, music, and literature were ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters. By Adam Nossiter Marco Grassi ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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Human plague cases drop in U.S. After a spike of human cases of the plague in 2015, a year the disease inflicted 16 people across portions of the western United States, the number of occurrences ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

April 24, 2025 • The National Endowment for the Humanities says the project will "honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped the nation." It's a lot of statues.

Contributed by Adam Simon / The five abstract paintings in Medrie MacPhee’s “The Repair,” at Tibor de Nagy, have just enough indications of figure/ground and observed reality to evoke landscape, ...

The painting was delivered by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who, in an interview with podcast host Tucker Carlson, described it as “a beautiful portrait” by a “leading Russian artist.” ...

The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2025 by Arts Economics highlights an industry that, despite a decline in total sales value, remains dynamic and evolving. What factors shaped these ...