Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services quietly altered the official portrait of Admiral Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender person confirmed to a four-star federal position, ...

The White House is decked out for the holiday season, complete with 51 Christmas trees, a Lego portrait of President Donald Trump and enough ribbon that—if tied end to end—would stretch nearly five ...

Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele are partnering to produce a feature film adaptation of Dylan Clark’s viral horror short, Portrait of God Clark will both direct and co-write the religious horror thriller, ...

When Donald Trump announced that the remaining Israeli hostages had been released, he remarked, “I think it’s going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace.” This prediction, predictably ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

The portrait hung above the Wadlow family’s television set for 50 years. While watching a program about William Shakespeare, Peter Wadlow realized that the painting might also be of the famous ...

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...

Emma Da Silva / AP A vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar that had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades sold Friday at auction for 32 million ...

Virtuous thinking, Kant wrote, is like good carpentry: It builds strong ideas in harmony with one another. Jackyenjoyphotography/Moment via Getty Images What makes a life virtuous? The answer might ...