As Christmas approaches next week, here is a look back at how the holiday season was celebrated in years gone by, when the hills were full of oil derricks and ...

Today in History for Dec. 18: In 1707, English hymn writer Charles Wesley was born. He wrote more than 6,500 hymns, including "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." In 1787, New Jersey became the third state ...

For a decade, officials have kicked around the idea of a downtown arts district. It’s in the Downtown Partnership’s planning documents. The city explored the idea in multiple arts and cultural studies ...

ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner is a two-part epic play that has not been seen in Houston in the last three decades. There’s a reason for that. Doing it is a huge dare, because the show is so dense, ...

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is focusing on the art and cultures of Mexico, Central America and South America, and those galleries have been reimagined and moved to a more central location. It’s a bid ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is focusing on the art and cultures of Mexico, Central America and South America, and those galleries have been reimagined and moved to a more central ...

NORTH ST PAUL, Minn. — In less than 24 hours, the country’s biggest mall will host its first-ever Hmong Arts Celebration. “I pitched the idea to them and here we are today with the first-ever Hmong ...

The director Kelly Reichardt encourages stillness. Her style—long takes and low stakes, often punctuated by unhurried silences—forces viewers to slow down, to immerse themselves in the atmosphere ...

Young artists across Illinois are invited to participate in a contest celebrating the United States' 250th birthday. The annual art contest is sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and ...

It's a bug, it's a bronze statue, it's… the ugliest public artwork in America? According to a new 2025 survey by riverswallart.com, the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Ala., tops the list of the ...

A public art installation in Dublin, Ohio, called "Field of Corn," was recently ranked among America's ugliest public art. The sculpture features 109 human-sized ears of corn and memorializes the area ...