Nearly 71 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide, including nearly 30 million refugees. How does that movement shape migrants'…
Jared Bowen, WGBH
Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence, the most…
The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Released…
This year's film version of "Little Women" received six Oscar nominations, including one for best picture. Author Louisa May Alcott…
British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he…
Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill," released in 1995, became the angry and raw soundtrack of a generation. Now, the Grammy-winning…
Renowned 19th century American artist Winslow Homer began his journey in marine painting with a trip to Europe, following his…
At the turn of the last century, African Americans from across the country flooded New York City's Harlem, leading to…
Over the past three years, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has undergone a major renovation -- and…
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