Read a collection of Masterpiece columns on some of the nation’s brightest literary achievements.

President Donald Trump targeted the Smithsonian Institution, one of the country's most prominent arts and culture ...

Dana Gioia, a poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, liked to say that a key to maintaining support ...

EDITOR’S NOTE- This story has been updated with more accurate information released from the Smithsonian. WASHINGTON (DC News ...

A new vision for the Kennedy Center could undo years of reconsidering what American classical music sounds like.

Lucina Montañez Mota runs her jewelry business Motcy Designs from inside her Pleasant Grove home. At Mota’s dining table, ...

Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

One of those hopeful immigrants, Swan Turnblad, built the historic home now known as the Turnblad Mansion, which has housed ASI since 1929. Swan emerged from modest means to become owner of the ...

Premieres Monday, April 21, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Discover the career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the ...

After an abrupt dismissal and a 10-month search, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum named Ellen Owens of New York’s ...

Stamps have enshrined the faces of presidents, celebrated the end of world wars and raised money for the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s — now the U.S. Postal Service ...