Abraham Lincoln had two homes while in office: the White House and this 34-room “cottage” — the word refers to the style, not size — on the grounds of the Soldiers’ ...

Before Julia Child’s kitchen was moved from public view at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History earlier this year, curators noticed something unusual occurring in ...

The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop, in business from 1792 to 1933, was a charming mix of general store and (legal) opiate dispensary. It sold paint, shoe polish, candy, ci...

We are so used to seeing photos — journalistic and personal — of people showing emotions that the portraits of expressionless individuals in contemporary artist Taryn Sim...

Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who owned Hillwood from 1955 until her death in 1973, amassed imperial Russian art and 18th-century French decorative items. Her “...

FotoWeekDC’s citywide celebration of all things photographic, running Friday through Nov. 18, celebrates its fifth birthday this year — which is practically forever in pho...

The Folger, a little pocket of Elizabethan England on Capitol Hill, is both respite from the D.C. tourist circuit’s unbridled patriotism and a chance to experience Shakespea...

How does a nouveau riche Scottish immigrant in Colonial Alexandria tell the world he’s arrived? By building a giant stone house when everyone else is still using wood or bri...

America loves to romanticize the good old days. In “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” painter Lisa Ruyter’s new show at Connersmith gallery, the artist asks viewers to cons...

Look closely at the paintings in the National Gallery of Art’s new Roy Lichtenstein retrospective … walk right up to the canvases and scrutinize them … and you’ll see...

Between the installations “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” at the Hirshhorn and “Fragments” at the Sackler (as well as the documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” ove...

A branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Renwick is devoted to crafts and decorative arts objects — stuff that’s theoretically useful and made of fiber, wood, ...

This is neither a scary place nor a sad one. Dogs frolic. Sun shines. All tour options — self-guided, cellphone and docent-led — introduce death-defying personalities: mad...

This tavern, built around 1785, was a gathering place for dudes who wanted to smoke, debate and occasionally brawl, then cram eight to a room upstairs, where they shared mattr...

Some people rely on their shoddy memory to preserve life’s special moments. The more adventurous turn their bodies into walking diaries, tattooing milestones — their child...