Scottish colourists exhibition: the painters who stood shoulder to shoulder with Matisse and Cezanne
In the early years of the 20th century, four painters left behind a drab grey Presbyterian Scotland for the exciting ...
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The Most Powerful Empires Throughout History
Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...
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An Etruscan Tomb with Exceptional Paintings, Including a Representation of a Metallurgical Workshop, Found in Tarquinia
In the final days of 2022, a team of experts from the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the province of ...
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California artists reimagine language, state’s identity in new exhibition
A Californian Visual Language” at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum explores how artists use text to challenge ...
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The best hotels in Rome for luxury and culture in 2025
Rooms by a chef, rooms by an architect and rooms above the Spanish chef. The Italian capital offers some spectacular hotel ...
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Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
Review: At the Getty Villa, the marvelous exhibition rescued from the Palisades fire
Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...
In Civilization VII, Empires Rise and Stereotypes Start to Fall
The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the ...
How Cuban culture filled a void after 30 years of longing
For this author, grief is physical, and healing had to be as well. She found comfort in Cuban Vodú, a variant of Santeria ...
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The Eternal Mysteries of Red
It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...
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