Auguste Rodin

| When Temple University announced its respected art school would move from the leafy suburbs to its main Philadelphia campus, some students worried it would be swallowed up by the rest of the college, becoming a glorified art department. One look at the...

Airports in New York and Los Angeles have become the latest equipped with body scanners that allow security screeners to peer beneath a passenger's clothing to detect concealed weapons. The machines, which are about the size of a revolving door, use low-...

Hip-hop star Kanye West has agreed to sell his Beverly Hills, Calif., property for about $8 million, less than a year after he bought it for $7.15 million. Located in the Beverly Hills flats, south of Sunset Boulevard, the 0.8-acre property came with a...

As students rush to classes at USC, an outdoor artwork near Fisher Gallery invites them to slow down and think about a shameful chapter of U.S. history. Created by Jenny Holzer in 1999 and simply titled "Blacklist," the landscaped retreat recalls the...

Now that the circus has left town, we're left sweeping up the peanut shells, or in this case welcoming the Arizona Diamondbacks to the North Side of Chicago. It's a rather anticlimactic end to a week full of craziness and the Barry Bonds traveling road...

Every restaurant with a fistful of Michelin stars inevitably seems to have a Parisian chef with a Gallic temper and a way with jus. Eating well in this city isn't an option - it's a duty, usually policed by the aforementioned chef. Overeating is not de...

Where barges once hauled as much as 18,000 tons of warped steel and other World Trade Center debris daily, deliveries have slowed to a trickle: two, maybe three trucks a day. Where towering mounds of rubble and stacks of crumpled cars once stood, the...

In a gallery and gardens along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is one of the city's best-kept secrets and most valuable treasures: the Rodin Museum. Assembled by movie magnate and philanthropist Jules E. Mastbaum, the museum houses the greatest...

Words appeared in works of art for nearly all of the 20th Century. The number of them increased in the 1960s and 1970s, with Pop and Conceptual art. And the extent to which they dominated a return to conceptualism in the 1990s shows no sign of abatement....

Professional irritant Camille Paglia likes to say that young people who once went into art now go straight into making movies. It's an overstatement, of course, but given that popular culture -- a wonderful oxymoron -- presently dominates everything...

Philadelphia offers a striking array of cultural options. From the elegance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the emotional experience of the new National Liberty Museum, you can hardly turn a corner in Philadelphia without running into art and...

WASHINGTON - Katharine Graham, the grande dame of modern American journalism who helped transform The Washington Post into one of the nation's top newspapers, died yesterday at a hospital in Boise, Idaho, after suffering a head injury in a fall Saturday....