Thomas Cole's art is a treasure, yet its untold stories are significant. In PART ONE of REFRAMING AN EMPIRE we look at the creation of the American Identity, specifically New York; the Empire State.

We often talk about New York state as the Empire State, as if it's this neutral thing. And we talk about the beginning of this nation and the time when Thomas Cole was representing the aesthetic ...

The cruel necessity of an empire’s decline is presaged in human nature itself. Thomas Cole, The Savage State, or The Commencement of Empire, from The Course of Empire series, 1834 To quote again the ...

As the Thomas Cole National Historic Site puts it ... Was Protest Art,” Cole’s mid-1830s series “The Course of Empire” reflected his anxiety over 19th-century American progress ...

In the early 19th century, Thomas Cole took on the mission of creating art that would capture and bring to life the wilderness of the unexplored America. He strove to bring the art of landscape ...

WMHT, along with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, aims to provide a broader swath of stories in its latest documentary, “Reframing an Empire,” which premieres Friday.

Sharing the intense personal struggles that kept him away from the UCLA football team in recent months, offensive lineman Thomas Cole revealed Saturday that he attempted suicide this year before ...