Art
Grief hit what may be its peak of glamor between 1815 and 1915. The devastating losses of the Civil War, suppression of women's rights, and Victorian and Edwardian affinity for the macabre resulted in generations of widows spending years in their dour "weeds."
News
Fifty days after the destruction of the Armenian Genocide Martyrs' Memorial Church in Deir el-Zour, Robert Fisk has reported it in the Independent, but his article is riddled with peculiarities, mistakes, and historical inconsistencies.
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Art
A new online portal created by the British Library and Qatar Foundation features 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts centered on the history of science.
Art
There’s something almost campy about a peacock. When it gets angry, the male bird's plumes prickle up like a fan, and it lets out an unpleasant, guttural screech.
Books
As a reaction to the bleak uniformity of suburban housing in post-war Hungary, many homeowners painted their houses in vibrant designs.
Art
This week, kinetic cinema, fuck paintings, drones, art inspired by Ebony and Jet, a queer birthday party, cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan, and more. In other words, just another week in NYC.
Art
A photographer of Mexican American life is raising funds for a new exhibition in Austin, Texas.
Books
There are over 250 art projects lodged in the transit infrastructure of New York City. Some are garish or grand mosaics that cover whole subway tunnels, others you might walk by for years without recognition. A new book compiles them in a guide to city's subterranean galleries.
Comics
There's so many things I don't know.
News
"We're at the end of our tether with the employment of one percent of archaeologists. If there is not just employment in 2014, [there will be a] hunger strike," said archaeologist Binnur Çelebi on April 5.
In Brief
One of the greatest Renaissance sculptures outside of Europe has been restored after a devastating fall in 2002 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.