An essential pilgrimage for art enthusiasts is the fair Art Basel, which is taking place this week in Basel, Switzerland. Like a bustling carnival filled with visual art, sculpture, and installation, this renowned event traces its origins back to the 1970s in Switzerland, when a group of art lovers and artists decided to breathe life into the small town’s art scene.
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Famous for founding the Stewart Gardner Museum with her husband John L. “Jack” Gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) was a renowned nineteenth and early twentieth-century Boston art collector, art patron, and philanthropist known for her keen love of and appreciation for art, culture, and architecture.
A while back, NASA trained its giant James Webb Space Telescope on several distant galaxies that emerged a mere 500 to 700 million years after the universe came into being 14 billion years ago and found them to be much larger and more mature than they should have been according to
In the 1940s, Disney famously released a series of movies that were either shorter features or a collection of separate segments with or without a vaguely-defined overarching theme, known as “package films.” While they never received the commercial success of the 1950 golden age or
Documentation of art-induced fainting episodes dates back to the nineteenth century; the most famous account is that of French author Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), whose pen name was Stendhal.
With news of the oil and gas company BP beating predicted revenue streams this year with over $5 billion in the first three months of this year, it is hard to believe that such a move comes at a time when Americans and Europeans alike find themselves facing the highest energy
Darkrooms are instrumental in movie plots: tiny rooms, red lights, and photographs hanging from a piece of string. But developing a photograph is not as easy as it looks in the movies.
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is going through a major update.
Jeff Koons discusses how Marcel Duchamp liberates artists from materiality, allowing them to pursue pure ideas.
Featuring exquisite Tiffany lamps, English carpets, and important paintings by Albert Joseph Moore, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Bouguereau, the upcoming sale of the
