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Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies

There’s a specific term for these irregular pearls: “baroque,” from the Portuguese barroco.

The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously loathed commercialism, and yet he (reluctantly) designed commercial homewares to be mass-produced.

The kimono that the world associates with Japan was actually created in the late-nineteenth century as a cultural identifier.

A hand-painted show card evokes a certain nostalgia and humanity that machine-made signs can never arouse: It suggests honesty.

One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.

Ongoing study and debate about gender neutral pronouns.

Horses and mules played a major role in the American Civil War. In the end, there were about twice as many dead equines as humans.

For most of the Jewish world, Hanukkah is a minor holiday. What happened in America?

Director Steven Soderbergh’s historical drama series, The Knick, brings viewers inside a New York City hospital’s operating room ...