Winters in the Windy City are notoriously long, but the Art Institute of Chicago gave visitors an unexpected dose of the cold this summer: a frozen sculpture of a snowman atop the museum’s terrace, ...

Welcome to Snowmageddon 2015. (For readers outside the northeastern United States, this is all you need to know.) As we hunker down in anticipation of what will almost certainly be a less dramatic ...

With skyscraper video art in California and 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut, there are now even more reasons to stay outside this season Spending time in a museum doesn’t always seem like ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. London's snowman trail will return to the capital from tomorrow (November 21). A dozen 1.6m ...

Investigating the history of the snowman is rather difficult because truthfully, the evidence melts away. Snowmen melt and disintegrate without leaving fossils, which are needed to provide their age.

It’s Christmas in July in Antioch as 30 snowmen are lurking downtown and other nearby places in the city waiting to be discovered by the public. These snowmen won’t melt, however, because they are ...

A sculptural trail with a festive twist comes to London, in the shape of The Snowman. Over the Christmas period, 12 giant sculptures of Raymond Briggs's The Snowman will be placed throughout the ...

Raymond Briggs, the British author and illustrator of the classic children’s books Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), and The Snowman (1978), died on 9 August, aged 88. Briggs was ...

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