October 30, 2023
All images © Nervous System Among the Earth’s metallic elements, bismuth is one of the most beguiling. Rarely encountered in nature, it can be synthesized for […]
Biomorphic art is the ancient Persian and Islamic biomorphic arts
October 21, 2023
Photos by Lance Gerber, courtesy of Manar Abu Dhabi, shared with permission For artist Jim Denevan, a paramount element of his creative practice centers on building […]
September 24, 2023
The Glue Society, “Hot with A Chance of a Late Storm” (2006). Photo by Louise Beaumont. All images courtesy of Sculpture by the Sea, shared with […]
September 23, 2023
Representatives of museums including the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art also call for the organisation to recognise Hamas as a terrorist organisation […]
September 12, 2023
Photos by Diego Lourenço Gurgel, courtesy of Vinicius Peripato, shared with permission For at least 12,000 years, Indigenous societies have called the Amazon basin home, but […]
September 12, 2023
“Svayambhu” (2007), wax and oil-based paint. All images © Anish Kapoor, courtesy of Palazzo Strozzi, shared with permission Untrue Unreal exemplifies the questions British-Indian artist Anish […]
September 10, 2023
Sheikha Al-Mayassa shared images on social media of the Palestinian flag projected on the façades of the Museum of Islamic Art and the National Museum of […]
June 17, 2023
All photos by Jacopo La Forgia, courtesy of Eva Fàbregas, National Museums in Berlin, and Hamburger Bahnhof–National Gallery of the Present Bulbous, biomorphic sculptures in lavender, […]
June 11, 2023
A 16th-Century Book of Astrological Ideas Tried to Predict the Future Using Illustrated Wheel Charts
All images via The Library of Congress More than 2,000 years ago in Hellenistic Greece, the astrolabe was invented as a kind of analog calculator to […]
May 31, 2023
All images © Can Sun, shared with permission If anyone ever told Can Sun not to play with his food, it’s a good thing he didn’t […]