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Reba McEntire and Rex Linn's Christmas Eve engagement has fans eagerly awaiting their wedding plans as the couple celebrates their first holiday season as fiancés.
Mere days before Christmas, the White House unveiled the official Trump family holiday portrait - a striking image of the President and First Lady hand-in-hand, draped in patriotic symbols.
Dozens of looted antiquities have been returned to Turkey by the Met, Virginia Museum, and a private collector, reflecting prosecutors' crackdown on art theft.
Dolly Parton, the legendary songwriter, has gifted us countless hits, from "Jolene" to "I Will Always Love You." Yet, her favorite song may surprise you - a one-hit wonder that even she admits you may not know.
>Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Kelly McEvers: Hanako Nakazato says, when she was a kid, she didn’t want to work in pottery. Hanako Nakazato: I grew up in Karatsu, which is known for history of pottery. So when I was younger, I wasn’t interested in potte...
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Lights, camera, action! Discover the 20 most popular Greater Good articles of 2025, plus our staff's top 10 hidden gems. Prepare to be inspired by 14 films that showcase humanity's best.
Featuring a wide range of styles, characters, and jokes, spanning from relatable to absurd, we're back with a fresh collection of Jim Benton's comics.As the artist previously shared, there will always be people who either love what you do or hate it, but you have to keep on going; develop a thick sk...
Arnulf Rainer, the Austrian artist whose relentless drive for experimentation made him a key figure of Europe s postwar scene, died on December 18 at 96 at his home in Austria. His death was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. Born in Baden, Austria, in 1929, Rainer spent more than seven decad...
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The enchanted forest of Brocéliande is recurrently featured in numerous medieval texts of Arthurian legends, although its location is uncertain. Today, Paimpont Forest in Brittany, France, is considered the most probable contender for it, commonly referred to in French as Forêt de Brocéliande (Brocé...
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Carrie Underwood is one of the most decorated country music artists of all time. She’s won Grammys, ACMs, CMTs, and AMAs. She got her start on American Idol and returned for season 23 in 2025 alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. Carrie continues to sell out shows wherever she goes and dazzles aud...
The Queen has officially been dethroned, and people have a lot to say. For the first time since Billboard launched the Global 200 in September 2020, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas has been the highest-ranking holiday tune, topping the charts 19 times since December 2020. But this year, thin...
Every once in a while, a gem of an old performance starts trending online, and you wonder, how have I never seen that before? Michael Jackson is one of the most popular entertainers ever to live, and Roberta Flack is one of the most prominent singers of the ‘70s, so where has their magical performan...
19 December 2025 He didn’t inherit studios, patrons, or privilege. Ram Vanji Sutar was born to a carpenter in rural Maharashtra, yet became India’s greatest sculptor, building the world’s tallest statue and a legacy etched in......
It s the most wonderful time of the year—a season filled with sweet treats, glowing lights, and, for millions of eager viewers, formulaic romantic comedies. Hallmark Channel, a leading force in the genre, produced 24 new films for its 2025 holiday lineup. Meanwhile, streaming platforms like Netflix ...
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The Last Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has released renderings of its new museum building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Kéré’s design for the 60,000-square-foot building is inspired by the nearby Mojave Desert, the surrounding Red Rock Mountains, baobab trees, and Las Vega...
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will host an exhibition next year titled “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground” and guest curated by leading photography scholar and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis. Opening September 3, “If Emmett Till Lived” will f...
The Milwaukee-based Ruth Foundation for the Arts has named the five artists who have won its 2026 Ruth Awards. They are Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. The winners will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000 each, which will be disburs...
We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, but a fiction all the same. Historical records have shown how readily authority can override personal morality, even when...
We love a good out-of-the-box talent. When someone accomplishes something we never even thought possible, it’s even better. If that’s your kind of thing, too, let us introduce you to Cody Sabol. He’s an artist, a painter to be exact, but it’s not like any other painting you’ve probably ever seen. He...
