The first Foucault’s pendulum I ever saw was at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the city where I was born. The pendulum hung in a stairwell. Its wire was attached to the ceiling four stories ...

“The only skyscraping girls’ school in the world” is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago’s North Side. A popular teacher of ...

In the fall of 2012, The Verge began to hear hermetic whisperings of a Book Club — something we'd never even discussed, much less attempted to implement. It was utter lunacy, of course, but we went ...

Preston’s Harris Museum Art Gallery & Library is set to reopen on Saturday September 28, unveiling a fully transformed, inclusive cultural destination.