What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).
When do paintings tell the real story and when do they depict a romanticized view of events? Does it matter? How do we determine when a piece of art c...
Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall.
In 1987, Lillian Disney - the widow of Walt Disney - decided to give a gift to the people of Los Angeles.
What is the origin of Easter bunnies and Easter eggs? When did they first appear on the world stage? What are their roots?
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a 16th-century Dutch painter, captures everyday life amidst the scourge of plague.
Learn how anonymous people, celebrating peace at the end of World War II and captured in an iconic photograph - were identified years later.
William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well.
Herb Block, who would ultimately become a famous political cartoonist at the Washington Post, created this illustration in 1929.
Thomas Boleyn, by all contemporary accounts, was a very ambitious man. This image presents a disputed portrait of him.
Playing a key role in supporting Henry VIII's decision to split from papal authority in England, Thomas Cranmer grants the King a dispensation to divo...
Thomas Hobbes, a British philosopher who was born in "the philosophy town" of Malmesbury, in 1588 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I), believed th...
A scholar with impressive credentials, Thomas More becomes Lord Chancellor. That is before he disagrees with Henry VIII's position on papal authority ...
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