One of the most common mediums for political art has long been poster making. One of the...
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The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
It has fallen on textile conservators to keep historic textiles preserved, and a surprising amount of science...
Viking Age Scandinavians almost exclusively made applied art – aesthetically appealing and useful. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
Sara’s images defined the Soviet Union at its ‘base line’. What was life like in early Soviet...
Rugendas up the challenging mission of drawing and conveying the New World to Europe. A significant weakness...
Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer...
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over....
Examining the role of animals in Thai manuscript art. Illustrations of real and mythical animals play an...
Yma Sumac’s career embodied many of the contradictions that emerge when the international desire to consume exoticism...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Lynes was a highly sought-after commercial and fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. But he had...
To an anthropologist, it means the patterns of human behaviour, and all that that entails. 01.01.2018 Introduction The...
A massive mural of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump engaged in a passionate...
The Wanderings of a Comet, from Another World, 1844 / Internet Archive With its dreamlike inversions and kaleidoscopic...
jonandsamfreecycle, Flickr, Creative Commons The Atelier Populaire produced many of the iconic images of the student and...
Christopher Bordenave and Sasha Rivero perform Sky Echo at the Getty An is not exclusive to sound....
dwell.com Looking at the urban social history of Accra through the singular Oxford Street, part of the city’s...
Gallery in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (photo: Dr. Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) When people think of museums,...
By Dr. Joseph Daubin / 08.09.2015 Distinguished University Professor of History The Graduate Center City University of...
Visitors look at the painting The Visit from 1939 by Paul Delvaux during the 2011 exhibition Surrealism...
You’re in a gallery looking at Dani Marti’s It’s All About Peter. What do you do next?...
Aaron Douglas. “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.” Oil on canvas, 1934. The New York...
Some of Van Gogh’s most iconic floral artworks, painted in 1888 and 1889, are facing the test...
Renaissance master Andrea Palladio designed Villa La Rotonda with rooms of various characters, which at night served...
Partition 31, 2015, Christiane Feser. Pigment print, cut, folded, and layered, 55 1/4 × 39 1/2 in....
The tragedies of ancient Greece underpin Nietzsche’s understanding of what it means to be an artist. Hans Runge/Flickr...