When Thousands of Hands Held a Secret for a Thousand Years – Porcelain, Part 1
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science, said
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science, said
In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it
(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?
Vulcan thought his ex-wife was out of the picture. Then one day while he was at work, she suddenly appeared
In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of metal tools during the Bronze Age, marble has been carved by
In 1957, forty-five-year-old artist Agnes Martin rented a studio in Coenties Slip among the abandoned buildings along the dilapidated waterfront