Once dismissed as a failed postmodern utopia, the Sicilian town of Gibellina is being transformed as Italy's first Capital of ...

WASHINGTON, DC – High in the Himalayan foothills, in small courtly kingdoms far from imperial capitals, artists once created some of the most intimate and refined paintings in South Asia. Next spring, ...

There's this funny fad in Hollywood of turning iconic villains into sympathetic — or even heroic — figures. "Wicked" turned the evil Wicked Witch of the West of "The Wizard of Oz" into a misunderstood ...

Gears of War's original art director has recalled how strongly influenced the first game was by the horror genre, a style that was diluted over time in the sequels, as he compared them to the Alien ...

America's geological wonders don't need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a science fiction movie. From towering mushroom-shaped rocks to mysterious moving ...

One of my intentions when I traveled to Alaska in 2021 was to confront some personal mythologies. Though I was born there, my family left before I turned two. Despite this, I long gave the state a ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated these eerie, worm-like movements under Martian conditions. The ...

Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth through Episode 7. Travis? Taylor? Pfft. America has a new sweetheart, and her name is… Well, she has a couple of names, from Trypanorhyncha Ocellus, to T. Ocellus, to ...

The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is set to showcase a new exhibition, "In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting," from Sept. 13 to Jan. 4. The exhibition features ...

APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, NEW YORK, AND THE FORMER HOME OF A MAN WHO LITERALLY INTRODUCED THIS REGION TO AMERICA, THOMAS COLE IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ARTISTS ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

In 1825, painter Thomas Cole founded the Hudson River School, an artistic movement that embraced the power of nature through works that encouraged its exploration while inspiring man to both settle ...