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Frank Hurley, Photographer For The Endurance

James Francis Hurley, known as Frank, was born in the Glebe district of Sydney, Australia in October 1885. His father Edward was a typese...

Hogarth's ‘Gin Lane’ and ‘Beer Street’

Even in his time, William Hogarth was much loved for his satirical, ‘conversation’ paintings. He was a man with strong social views and d...

Pop Culture Icons Recreated With Sausages

@burpzine is an Instagram series created by pastry chef Erik Vernieuwe in his spare time. The series is exactly what you think it is – sa...

The Discovery of Vivian Maier

In 2007 John Maloof paid $400 for a box in a blind auction in Chicago. An estate agent and flea market frequenter, Maloof was hoping to f...

A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Original Colours Still In It

It’s a good bet your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colours… just like the palette belonging to Ame...

Karl (Carl) Moon and the Pueblo Native North Americans portraits.

Born in 1879 in Wilmington, Ohio, Carl (originally Karl) Everton Moon loved reading stories about Native Americans as a boy. He followed ...

The Victorian Artist Who Painted Fairy Worlds while in an Asylum

The Victorian artist Richard Dadd painted exquisite, highly detailed canvases filled with fairies and other magical creatures. In his bes...

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – The Macabre Practice of Binding Books in Human Skin

Back in the 19th century, some books were bound in a particular type of leather. Human skin, sourced from unfortunate and unwilling souls...

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...

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