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James H. Billington announced Wednesday that he will retire after 27 years as leader of the Library of Congress. Billington, 86, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 to be the 13th person to head the oldest f...

"When someone you love walks through the door, even if it happens five times a day, you should go totally insane with joy." So says photographer Ben Moon (quoting writer David Dudley) in this deeply moving tribute to Den...

"I think that all pussies are perfect, in being un-perfect... My pussy, your pussy, everybody's pussy is f**king perfect." That's how Chelsea Jones responded when Bullett Media asked her to describe the perfect pussy. Am...

BALTIMORE --On the April day when Freddie Gray died from injuries he suffered in police custody and a week before rioters took to the streets in protest, Karen Brooks Hopkins, president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ...

Lovers' attempts to thwart parental disapproval are old news in the theater, from "Romeo and Juliet" to "Fiddler on the Roof." The ballet "Don Quixote" tells that story, too. So how has the Royal Ballet managed to make i...

I watched the Tony Awards on TV for the same reason I always do: the performances. Every year seems to bring fewer awards and more entertainment--yes, sometimes bombastic snippets from overblown musicals but sometimes re...

Summer break is upon us! Your kids can't wait to hit the pool, hang with friends or escape to camp. You're worried they'll forget how to read -- the dreaded "summer slide" looms in your mind -- so you look around for som...

Peter Mullaly, owner of Eastern Shore Flagpoles, stood across 16th Street NW from the handsome limestone mansion that is the Cuban Interests Section on Wednesday morning and hollered to his crew of flagpole erectors work...

Peter Mullaly, owner of Eastern Shore Flagpoles, stood across 16th Street NW from the handsome limestone mansion that is the Cuban Interests Section on Wednesday morning and hollered to his crew of flagpole erectors work...

How do you delve beneath the surface of a protracted, brutal conflict -- one that involves Syria, Iraq, Islamic State militants and various Kurdish factions -- and meet the people who are actually involved? If you're Jos...

The Gypsy Girl (1628), cropped from a painting by Frans Hals gives a contemporary newscaster "the eye" in an online photo collage, made at photofunia.com When teaching Art History I always stress to my students that art ...

Pin it Like many things cute and useful, emoji originated in Japan, which means many of the icons are specific to Japanese culture. With food being a vital part of the culture, it's no surprise that there are quite a few...

The below was written in 2010. I am currently sitting on a flight headed from Los Angeles to New Orleans. I am in a middle seat between my fiancé and a dear friend. Both have had two Bloody Marys and are passed out beca...

Prolific and influential cookbook author, Paula Wolfert, is a true adventurer, in and out of the kitchen. We spoke to Wolfert to learn more about the Kickstarter for her new biography-combo-cookbook, Unforgettable. The p...

Pin it On view until October 11, Tate Modern presents a retrospective on Agnes Martin, the first since the artist's death in 2004.

No matter how hard moms try to hide their makeup bags, kids seem to have a knack for getting finding them and wreaking havoc on their faces. We asked the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to share photos of the first t...

Michelle Kwan, who you may recognize from a little sporting event called the Winter Olympics (or from your neighborhood watering hole), is sprinkling her sorta A-lister dust all over Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential...

Katie Deline-Ray is affectionately known by her loved ones as the "crazy nest lady." She isn't quite sure how many mini handmade havens she's knitted and crocheted for injured baby animals to take refuge in over the year...

For the first time ever in his career, Gustavo Dudamel will conduct all nine Beethoven symphonies in numerical order on five successive nights. From July 8-12, Gustavo, his Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar from Caraca...

The librarian of Congress, James Billington, has made a smart decision to retire. Now the focus will be on his legacy and his prescient decision, decades ago, to usher the library into the digital age. Rumors of dysfunct...

There's much more to the world's great art museums than just the Louvre and the Prado. In fact, you can skip the jaunt across the Atlantic altogether and set your sights on some world-class art collections right here in ...

Many, many people over the past 12 years have argued that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a mistake, but then last weekend Donald Rumsfeld said it, too -- or seemed to, according to a headline in the Times of Lon...