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The program, running through October, is a collaboration among the Portland Museum of Art, Maine's Bureau of Parks and Lands, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and Freeport retailer L.L. Bean.

At Olana, visitors are consumed by the lavish lifestyle of a well-to-do family of the Gilded Age.

The story is told of a moment in the North Carolina mansion of Richard Joshua Reynolds, American businessman ...

Its title honors victims of the Atlanta shooting tragedy, while its artists speak to a community of strength and resilience in the face of racial injustice.

The 2021 Geminid meteor shower peaks December 13-14. Theres a bright moon up most of the night. Predawn December 14

By SHEILA WICKOUSKI FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibit “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” focuses on a six-week visit in Humboldt’s life that would later impact on American cultural development in the visual arts, sciences, literature, politics and exploration. After five years of exploration over thousands of miles of land, rivers and mountains in South America, Mexico and Cuba to docu...

The Parthenon Report: Shifting paradigms and a New Era Search for: that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead. – IONIAN, Constantine Cavafy In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published his masterwork “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, which presented the revolutionary idea that periodic and rather sudden “paradigm shifts” provide whole new ways of understanding things that we have never considered before. He also stated that there are often c...

Last week, China’s Zhurong rover successfully trundled onto the surface of Mars, and returned its first images of the red planet to Earth. It has become the third rover operating on Mars, joining NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance; hopefully next year they will be joined by a fourth, the European-Russian Rosalind Franklin. Hopefully, anyway. The successful landing of Zhurong and Perseverance, and the runaway, years-long triumph of the Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity rovers, means we risk b...

CBS Photo ArchiveGetty Images Given that we are nearing the end of Historic Preservation Month, its especially appropriate now to honor people who have ensured the preservation and restoration of numerous historic sites. Among these champions are two women who youve likely heard of—but who are not particularly well known for their efforts in preservation, per se: Jackie Kennedy and Doris Duke. Although we often associate both Doris Duke and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy as being fashion ...

In honor of Historic Preservation Month, learn about Jackie Kennedy and Doris Duke's efforts to save numerous historic sites.