“Time Bank” ran in issues of Piggy Press magazine published by NatWest Bank, a tie in with its hugely popular piggy bank ...

Belgian artist Jean Claude Block, best-known as a member of the Antwerp experimental art collective ERCOLA (Experimental ...

Banksy appears to confirm a new mural in London is his latest work. On Monday, the elusive street artist posted photos of the mural on Instagram, hours after it appeared on a building in Bayswater, ...

Most historians today marked 2025 as the 400th year since New York City was founded — linking the city’s start with the construction of Fort Amsterdam by Dutch settlers. But the city’s birth year has ...

In 1910, a fierce competition began between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British captain Robert Falcon Scott. Each explorer wanted to be first to reach the geographic South Pole, thereby ...

The 14th-century Asante Ewer, which was made in England and then mysteriously travelled to West Africa, is expected to be loaned to Ghana next year. It had been looted from the royal palace in Kumasi ...

Nearly a century after climber George Mallory vanished on Mount Everest, a pair of explorers are recreating his expedition to find out what really happened. But the Turner twins are putting their ...

Fifteen years ago, Ed Stafford became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River—nearly 4,000 miles on foot. Now, via this exclusive package with The Vault, he invites you back to ...

“Before I walked the length of it, I had never been there, but the Amazon had always had a mystique surrounding it, to me,” says the British adventurer and TV host, currently based in Central America ...

A British explorer has made history by becoming the first person to reach seven of the planet’s most inaccessible places. Chris Brown, 63, is on a mission to visit all eight Poles of Inaccessibility ...

“Burning Bright” showcases the poet-artist’s inventive approaches and the vivid imagination that set him apart. Photo: Richard Caspole, Yale Cen Two iconic works kick off the show. Spread open in a ...

Though students often encounter William Blake in English classes, where they spend semesters poring over his Romantic poetry, his work extended beyond verse. With the help of his wife, Blake wrote, ...