The Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage today launched “Built by Hand: Skilled Artisans in the ...

From lace gowns to bold color and hyper-personalized details, 2026 weddings prove the chicest trend is being yourself.

Once popular in the Victorian era, flower “purses,” crafted of faux and real flowers, are being carried down the aisle with a ...

Natural, but polished.

Amid the cooing over carats and endless retellings of the moment the question was popped, friends or bridal stylists usually ...

Late in life, he declared, “I’m nothing else but an artist, I’m sure, and delighted to be,” but he clearly was so much more.

Folk games are the country's living memories. They carry the philosophy, history, social structure, traditions, and seasons within them. To understand these games is to understand the people who ...

Dhaka is the beating heart of Bangladesh’s textile industry. But beyond the capital, women are meeting a demand for ...

The industry often claims to want new voices. But when a woman delivers a film as unapologetically rooted in female ...

In the collective imagination, drag queens are often portrayed in a highly caricatured way. The less informed believe they ...

Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a ...

For decades, the cultural script for a bachelorette party has been aggressively consistent: matching pink T-shirts with a ...