Telephones changed the way life was lived

This 1923 photograph from the Mount Airy telephone exchange of the Central Telephone Company shows, from left, Virginia Spillman Ashby, Claudia Davenport Smitherman, and Mamie Greenwood.

Mount Airy Musuem of Regional History

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Let's get right to it this week.

Since before the start of the World's Most Magical Celebration back in October, we've known that t

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death still holds us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction

I n May, a portrait of a woman sold at auction in New York for $195m (£157m): a record for an artwork by

Adam Parker Smith once quipped “I feel like so many of my ideas start out as jokes, for better or worse.” He’s long toyed with ancient forms, most notably by recasting Grecian amphoras in resin and slippery-looking spaghetti and red sauce. His latest endeavor sees the American talent con

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Longtime parishioners Frank and Anita Sapienza of Methuen donated a hand-carved statue of St. Francis of Assisi to their church, the Hol

We’ve all driven past that house or garden that seems to have different little statues in it. Maybe you’ve even put some our yourself - gnomes or gargoyles (especially around Halloween), or whatever collection floats your boat.

But that doesn’t mean they cannot get

For most people today, ancient Greek sculpture brings to mind images of pearly white human figures. Yet, ever since the first excavations of Pompeii in the 17th century, archeologists have known that these sculptures were painted in vivid colours. The German archeologists Vinzenz Brinkmann an

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The most prominent Confederate statues in Richmond may have come down, but holdouts remain.

What's happening: More than two years after the city's reckoning with Confederate iconography began in earnest, legal wrangling continues over a

Axios Richmond is an Axios company.

The most prominent Confederate statues in Richmond may have come down, but holdouts remain.

What's happening: More than two years after the city's reckoning with Confederate iconography began in earnest, legal wrangling continues over a

The Clark Art Institute's summer show details how he became the most famous French sculptor in America.

By the end of his life, Auguste Rodin was easily the most famous artist in the world, staging international exhibitions, waitlisting collectors, and influencing generations of artists