Global Design: Be inspired by art nouveau spaces in Belgium and Singapore
The art nouveau design movement showcases the Belgian flair for visual language. Read more at straitstimes.com.
French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution, historian says
The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...
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The Untold Story of Rosemarie Beck, the Abstract Artist Who Gave Up Fame For Figuration
"Earthly Paradise," a radiant new exhibition at Van Doren Waxter in New York, shines a light on the life and legacy of ...
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Sofia Coppola Is Revitalizing Parisian Ball Culture
The filmmaker has been named the art director of the Parisian Ball at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs next year.
Christofle Shows Its Tradition of Innovation in New Arts Déco Exhibit
Christofle: A Brilliant Story” is the first comprehensive retrospective on the French silversmith and runs until April 20 at ...
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How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
Older French women are casting off unforgiving codes about femininity and ageing. Two journalists approaching 60, Valérie ...
Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t
Morton was a physician and naturalist who lived in Philadelphia from 1799 until the end of his life in 1851. A lecture he delivered to aspiring doctors at the Philadelphia Association for Medical ...
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Mickalene Thomas Always Starts With a Clean Studio
If the rhinestone is artist Mickalene Thomas’s signature material, then exuberance is the signature spirit. Along with their ...
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Upcoming event revisits woman saxophone pioneer Elise Hall
Enter Elise Hall, a French-born socialite in Boston at the turn of the 19th century. Widowed and left a sizable fortune, Hall ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Gauguin exhibit doesn't shy away from controversy
Featuring 150 works drawn from 65 public and private collections, "Gauguin in the World" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston doesn't shy from controversy.
'The most noble scenes are made desolate': The climate warnings in 19th Century paintings
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...
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How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?
This is, briefly, the story of Le Café de Surate (The Coffee-House of Surat), an 18th-century tale by French writer Jacques ... listening to a female Persian musician with an “African ...