Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

By the mid-19th century, the proud young country wanted a voice of its own. Over the next 50 years, it produced one.

A new collection brings legendary works by midcentury designers to a wider audience for the first time in decades.

Explore the architectural evolution of gas stations from basic refueling points to multifunctional urban hubs in response to ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Algorithms are rewriting the codes of contemporary aesthetics: they favor what’s viral and shareable, generating images ...

Now, skip forward from the founding to mid-20th-century America, and let’s see how Trump compares with two other presidents. First, Lee Hockstader recently spent a day at Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

Jobs in the service sector have long driven the US economy, despite the image of a mid-20th century America as a country backed by manufacturers. The service sector employed 57% of private sector ...

American fashion designer Thom Browne is known for a slightly ... an illuminated panel ceiling; and mid-century furnishings—including a desk— by Paul McCobb, Maison Jansen and George Nakashima.

And yet some great 20th-century American art has been made ... the medium he (along with several other mid-century American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker and Paul Cadmus ...