American history
National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $3m to Black heritage sites across the US
Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects
Hottest Abe: wax statue of Lincoln loses its head amid US heat wave
The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave
Virginia Overton creates new public work for Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refinery
The Brooklyn-based artist has created an abstract wall sculpture for the building’s lobby using parts of the old factory’s iconic yellow sign
18th-century glass bottles filled with cherries discovered at George Washington's Mount Vernon residence
Brandy, anyone?
Timothée Chalamet kicks off the Met Gala with a flag-inspired collaboration with street artist JR
The actor debuted a new performance and installation in the Breuer building, before protestors crashed the party at the Costume Institute’s annual celebrity fundraiser
Sotheby's to sell Robert Colescott's take on George Washington crossing the Delaware River
The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction
'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum
Plus, artists with disabilities in the Covid era and Goya's Disasters of War
What can we learn from the Salem Witch Trials?
A historical exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum traces the political and religious forces that led to the executions of innocent people
The Huntington Library acquires two collections of US slavery and abolition records
The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”
Celebrating a French artist who captured a young America
Exhibition profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who chased down Napoleon and was friendly with America's founding fathers—and never stopped drawing
North Carolina to stage first show on American South
'Southern Accent' combines art and music to showcase the impact of the American South on US culture
Books: Restitution justice, American style
Two books reveal the complexities involved in restitution