A couple of weeks ago, I hiked into a remote patch of the Mojave Desert hoping to experience a newly installed piece of experimental art. Instead, I met a pool guy named Robert. To be fair, I’d been ...

A marker tells the history of a segregated pool in Lawrence and community activism against segregation and in support of an integrated public swimming pool. The marker is outside the entrance of the ...

Those Baby Boomers who walked the halls of East Orange High School in the 1960s will remember searching for a swimming pool that, urban legend claimed, had been filled in after some mysterious student ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1988, the artist David Hockney painted the bottom of the empty pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel with a ...