In 1899, theater critic Edward McKay entered a London flower shop to buy some roses. The store was completely sold out. “Well, you see,” the clerk explained. “It’s Miss Edna May’s birthday and all our ...

Van Gogh’s pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold ...

Juliet Jacques observes the pros and cons of archives, who’s represented in them and how past prejudices shaped ...

Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

A journey in the wheel tracks of Irishman William Bulfin, who chronicled his bicycle tours of the country at the start of the ...

The most valuable item in the sale, an etching from 1643 by the Dutch Old Master Rembrandt van Rijn titled The Three Trees, sold for £225,200, including buyer’s premium. The etching, widely considered ...

Elizabeth was the first and only woman executed in Nevada so far. Another woman, Priscilla Joyce Ford, was on death row in the state but escaped execution after she died in custody on January 29, 2005 ...

The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the decade.

Jack London, J.M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and more literary heavy-hitters. But newspapers that relied on boilerplate didn ...

Women in London also protested for their right to ... Oklahoma was home to an affluent Black community who ran newspapers, churches, and scores of businesses and was known as the "Black Wall ...

In the last show before Himmat Shah died on March 2, the inaugural 'Vocabulary of Vision' at the newly opened Black Cube ...