Dear Friends of the Giant Fiberglass Pineapple Overlooking I-95: Stop writing us letters! We would love to write 270 words about your fruit, only we haven’t the time. But yo...

“Just a few lines to tell you that my seven year old son Manning couldn’t get over your picture Number Nine,” begins a 1949 letter to Jackson Pollock, America’s best-l...

Ancient Egyptians were devoted to the idea of an afterlife. So, it’s symbolically appropriate that the National Museum of Natural History’s “Eternal Life in Ancient Egyp...

“Is this it?” asked a confused visitor to the National Museum of Language. The name implies a more magisterial setting than this low-ceilinged plot of green institutional ...

Annie Leibovitz hadn’t planned to visit Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House last summer. But she was in Concord, Mass., to see Walden Pond, and as she puts it, she kept “t...

The type of modern art that some people find infuriating is perhaps best exemplified by Mark Rothko’s paintings — smudgy squares writ huge, with no story, no figures and u...

For more than a decade, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was a regular in war zones: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and his final stop, Libya. Unlike more traditional war ...

Many a milestone was attained in the airspace over the College Park Aviation Museum. There were big, sexy victories, like the first controlled helicopter flight, in 1924. And ...

The “Twilight” franchise has perhaps had little impact on tourism within the vampire community. But the books and films have had a very real effect on the Quileute Indians...

The Walters Art Museum’s newest exhibition is a restless child’s dream. Unlike most gallery shows, “Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture” encourages visitors to caress...

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881, which makes her use of bandages as building material only slightly less strange. This unusual touch is one reason her Glen...

Those without a merit badge in history may not know that the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA spent her youth far from campfires and cookie sales. Juliette Gordon Low, wh...

Plenty of artists love to hole up in their studios by themselves. Some, like Arlington native Amy Hughes Braden, also enjoy the company of others. Braden, who named her collec...

If you’re looking for taxpayer-funded news without interruptions from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, check out the Voice of America studios, where you’...

Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro are making their U.S. debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art with the installation show “Are We There Yet?” The exhibition�...