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From James Joyce to Muhammad Ali, influential figures as depicted by equally iconic artists will line the walls of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College until May 16.The museum’s new

“Yiddish: A Global Culture” is a “rich and revelatory account that places Yiddish at the heart of the modern Jewish story."

10 free things to do in Boston in February, from magic shows to curling to cooking classes to arcade games.

Collectors Bram and Sandra Dijkstra saw value in "discarded art."

During the interwar years, the American journalist reported on political unrest in Cuba, Germany and Spain

Max Eastman was the US's most erudite and principled communist, who eventually became a champion of the free market. Here is his story in his own words. "I wanted to extend that freedom to all men; I wanted to see a society without distinctions of caste, class, race, money-power—without exploitation."

LONG BEACH, Calif. — If you hear someone has a “Rubenesque” figure, you immediately know what that means: a full-figured, though shapely and alluring woman as commonly rendered by the classical Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — If you hear someone has a “Rubenesque” figure, you immediately know what that means: a full-figured, though shapely and alluring woman as commonly rendered by the classical Dutch painter Peter Paul Rubens.

You could say that Deedee Wigmore is a time traveler, of sorts. At home, she dwells in the nineteenth century.

Explore US history with these maps of food production, folklore, 1930s Greyhound bus routes, and more!