When Edward Said published his book Orientalism in 1978, his insights shattered previous notions of East-West relations and ...

Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

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Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...

The geishas glide with measured steps across a wooden stage, offering a glimpse of a long-misunderstood tradition that is becoming a rare sight in Japan. Dancing with paper fans and dressed in ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C ... It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty ...