A tour of some of the nation’s elegant institutions, including the Enoura Observatory and the Chichu Art Museum, reveals an approach that is startlingly different from the monumental or encyclopedic ones that define many Western museums.

Yale University’s museum, which recently completed a four-year reconstruction, is now bigger and free to visit—and yet, caught up in the controversies of the field, it’s evidently skeptical of the very notion of natural history.

The exhibitions and displays in the American Museum of Natural History’s new addition highlight the connections among all living things, including humans.

In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible...

Backdrops from films including ‘North by Northwest,’ ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ are artworks in their own right, sometimes even upstaging the films themselves

The work at the center of the show at the Huntington Library is a paean to the wonder of human advancement.

A collector’s stunning holding of works related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective is now on view at the Grolier Club

The New-York Historical Society draws from the writer’s archive to give an interesting, if incomplete, picture of his process and craft.

A survey of these devices shows that they were far more than utilitarian objects, expressing wit, whimsy and even religious belief.

Taking the winged creatures as its primary subject, an exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art examines the intersection of natural history and colonialism.

An exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum argues that much of today’s Western food culture is rooted in France, during the period from 1650 until the 1789 Revolution.

The new $150 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington is a confusing, uninspired attempt at honoring the war hero and president’s legacy.

A view from the anniversary commemoration at the camp and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, where historical fissures still linger.

The glittering, sensational objects in this show—many never before seen in the U.S.—were created for the wealthy and the powerful with a singular goal in mind: to impress.

An overview of American art politicizes the past, offering demolition over deconstruction.

The first survey of the cartoonist’s work in nearly 50 years highlights the way his playful art captured the mechanics of society.

A new exhibition asks, ‘How can Indians be so present and so absent in American life?’

A Midwestern heiress’s gruesome, detail-obsessed creations forever changed criminal investigations.

When it comes to the Trump-focused Shakespeare in the Park production, director Oskar Eustis seems more imperious than any of the play’s characters

J.T. Rogers’s play about the 1993 Oslo Accord is surprisingly engaging—but myopic