Remember the "smile" rock on Seven Bridges Road? I wrote about the reminder to put on a happy face two weeks ago. A reader had long liked the painted message on an outcropping near a popular swimming ...

Mona Lisa's famous smile might not have been genuine when she was painted by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago. Scientists wanted to investigate Lisa Gherardini's facial expression and apply ...

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DULUTH — Near the top of Seven Bridges Road, a narrow road that winds through Lester Park and over stone-arch bridges, a smiling face has overlooked an Amity Creek swimming hole since at least the ...

PROFILE/Mona Lisa: She is the symbol of art and, equally, the symbol of high kitsch - but there are no official plans to celebrate… PROFILE/Mona Lisa: She is the symbol of art and, equally, the symbol ...

"Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile," opening today at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, fails to take us beyond the myth and disguise cloaking a cultural icon of Japan. But it fails only because ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Rowdy Buechner of Sandpoint rode Kesler Rodeo’s Painted Smile for a score of 90 Saturday to win the ninth round of bareback riding at the National Finals Rodeo, his second win of the ...

In perhaps the most revealing snapshot of our time, scientists have finally conducted a comprehensive study of clowns. They weren’t just any “scientists.” They were “psychologists.” From the ...

Taiwanese movie actress Shu Qi is to be the new ambassador for Frederique Constant & the Paint a Smile Charity Project at the Beijing Children’s Hospital. Paint a Smile’s mission is to reduce patient ...