Discover the hidden features and intricate interior of this cabinet. One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this ca...

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

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’...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

“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...

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...

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...

On the evening of July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh stumbled back to his tiny room at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, just north o...

Diane Arbus was born on March 14, 1923, in New York City. An artistic youth, she learned photography from her husband, actor Allan Arbu...

Before Stanley Kubrick directed arguably some of the best movies ever made like "2001: Space Odyssey" or "The Shining," he was a simple ...

The Republic of Congo and its neighbor the Democratic Republic of Congo are not often associated with the latest international fashion t...

Uğur Gallen was born and lives in Turkey, and for years has seen neighbouring Syria plunged into a civil war that has affected the lives ...

Ogawa Kazumasa lived from the 1860s to almost the 1930s, surely one of the most fascinating 70-year stretches in Japanese history. Ogawa'...

The Bauhaus, Barry Bergdoll writes in the New York Times of the German design school founded a century ago last month, "lasted just 14 ye...