On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...

The Vatican has announced that the Pope is dead. A series of arcane rites now occur and then the complex process of naming a ...

As physical media continues its comeback, The National rounds up the best releases across film, music, art and more. Album No ...

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

"There are no televisions, radios or telephones and the electric supply is usually turned off between midnight and 6am" ...

Over that time, they have served as a crucible of cultures from around the Mediterranean and North Africa. This long ... Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and, indeed, well into the 20th century, ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

A man who found a hoard of 11th Century coins just months into his archaeology career said the discovery was made all the more sweet by being unearthed near his home town. Andrew Pegg, 49 ...

While the whole world was waiting anxiously for President Donald J. Trump, a self- proclaimed “tariff man”, to present his ...

Dracula turns an 18th-century African prince into a vampire and locks him away. When he’s inadvertently set free in 1970s Los Angeles, he begins to pursue a woman who resembles his soul mate.