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Portraits of an American community of colour

c. 1904 Portrait of the Thomas A. and Margaret Dillon Family. Virginia-born coachman Thomas A. Dillon and his wife, Margaret, a domestic ...

A Great Day in Harlem: behind Art Kane's classic 1958 jazz photograph

The young art director’s idea to photograph as many of the luminaries of the New York jazz scene as possible together for Esquire’s 1959 ...

Helen Levitt -"The Most Celebrated And Least Known Photographer Of Her Time."

“If it were easy to talk about, I’d be a writer. Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.” – Helen Levitt Helen Levitt’s pho...

This Artist’s Oil Paintings of Women Are Considered the Most Realistic in the World

Creating portraits that are startlingly lifelike, Chinese artist Leng Jun is a master of hyperrealism. The accomplished painter is partic...

The Moves Of Gene Kelly

When his mother first enrolled him and his brother in dance classes when Gene was still a boy, he had to endure taunts from his classmate...

When “Mona Lisa” was stolen in 1911 and the police questioned Picasso

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, is arguably “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied w...

The Victorian Photographic Society That Tried To Preserve ‘Old London’

In capturing images of doomed buildings, they documented the city they thought they were losing. In 1875, Alfred Marks learned he was abo...

Don’t Let History Forget This Incredible Female World War II Photographer

After trudging through the liberated concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau, photographing piles of human bones, S.S. officers in p...

Watch an Art Conservator Bring Classic Paintings Back to Life in Intriguingly Narrated Videos

Even in our age of unprecedentedly abundant images, delivered to us at all times by print, film, television, and especially the ever-mult...

Children watched the story of “Saint George and the Dragon”

Forget the fabled rudeness of the Parisians. Forget the crowds of tourists who flock to the City of Light in the summer, making the city’...

The Dad That Turns His 4-Year-Old Son’s Adventures Into Action Films

When we were kids, it was easy to imagine that the ground was lava, or that we were superheroes or ship captains. But when we grow up, ou...

Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book 'Your Name? Robot', by Mikhail Romadin

As we approach three full decades of a world without the Soviet Union, certain details about life in the societies that constituted it in...

c. 1321-1941Death masks. Faces from beyond the grave

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). While decorative funeral masks have been used to adorn the dead since ancient times, from those gracing Tutank...

The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet

One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711--1793) and Dav...

The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”

History remembers Pablo Picasso first as an innovative painter, and second as an uninhibited personality. The latter especially generat...

Debbie Harry Painted by H.R. Giger

In the spring of 1980, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie met H.R. Giger at a party at the Hansen Gallery in New York City, which wa...

The Chromatic Typewriter That Types in Colour

Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with colour pads an...

When Bookshop Employees Get Bored.

If you've worked in retail you'll know how boredom can often kick in. These industrious bookshop employees have found a novel way to comb...

Almost Every Bob Ross Painting in Existence Lives in an Office in Virginia

SOMEWHERE OFF ROUTE 50 IN Herndon, Virginia, next to a LabCorp and across the street from a dentist’s office, there is a warehouse that h...

Louis Daguerre, Inventor of Daguerreotype Photography

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. Named after the...

Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe's 'mind-blowing' station show

On 7 May 1964, a gaggle of excited passengers alighted on to a rainy disused railway station platform in south Manchester and took their ...

When Bruce Davidson Spent Several Months Photographing NYC gang 'The Jokers'

“At first I went with a Youth Board worker to take pictures of their wounds from a gang war in front of their candy store hang-out,” reca...

The Day Andy Warhol Was Shot By 'The Society for Cutting Up Men' (SCUM)

Moments after Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol’s sixth-floor office at 33 Union Square West on June 3, 1968, carrying two guns and a m...

The True Story Of Spartacus, The Gladiator Who Led Ancient History’s Biggest Slave Revolt

Spartacus not only led a slave revolt with tens of thousands of soldiers in the first century B.C., but repeatedly defeated Rome in bat...

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