Visual Arts Story Briefs

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).

This image depicts the fossilized remains of a ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex at Chicagos Field Museum.

When Sue Hendrickson and her colleagues started to extract their amazing find from the rocky outcrop, in South Dakota, they made another interesting d...

Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first ...

Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi) - more commonly known as Raphael - was born in 1483 and died, on his 37th birthday, in 1520.

El Greco ("The Greek," who used his birth name, Domnikos Theotokpoulos, to sign his paintings) created this work for the Primate Cathedral of Saint Ma...

Triceratops - a five-ton adult dinosaur which ate vegetation, not meat - had an interesting appearance.

Niels Hansen Jacobsen created this representation of a troll between 1895-96.

On the 7th of June, 1954, President Harry Truman penned his thoughts regarding the meeting he'd had with his military advisers on the 18th of June, 19...

Tsar Alexander I, of Russia, was known as an enigmatic ruler during his lifetime and as "Blessed Alexander" in Russian history. He led his country dur...

One of numerous relocation centers, during WWII, the Tule Lake internment camp was also known as a segregation center.

Image of a political cartoon called Church of the Heavenly Antenna by Herb Block and published by the Washington Post on March 26, 1987.

Tyler Stanger was a flight instructor who owned and operated Stang-AIR based at Brackett Field in La Verne, California. He was flying with Cody Lidle ...

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