The Disney Vacation Club Preview Center opened at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort revealing details on the new Island ...

When the Southeast Asian sailors started out on their odyssey they were not yet identifiably Polynesian. Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Hawaii's native tree snails, known as the "jewels of the forest," are rapidly disappearing. Some of the most imperiled only ...

October 9, 2024 • A lynx stretching in the sun, tadpoles swimming beneath lily pads and an investigator dusting a tusk for prints are among the winning images from the newest Wildlife ...

A Norwegian adventurer, followed by a New Zealand historian, burst into the otherwise quiet arena of Polynesian studies with pronouncements that the generally accepted ideas about origins and ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...

The art market is grinding through a rough patch, and no one is feeling the pain more than Sotheby’s. The sales downturn, driven in part by China’s economic slowdown, wars and volatile U.S ...

A sweeping show at the Met focuses on the Tuscan city’s pivotal role in Renaissance art, where painters such as Duccio and Simone Martini depicted religious scenes in vibrant detail and with ...

See what Disney World looks like after Hurricane Milton and the damage it caused at the Most Magical Place on Earth.