The lost art of hitchhiking: What we can still learn from travel’s most radical mode?
“Hitchhiking is not a thing of the past; it’s a thing for the future,” Menz tells the BBC. Still, the two 25-year-olds realise that not...
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The fine line between art and pornography
(Image credit: Getty Images) For more than 100 years, activists have drawn attention to the depiction of female nudes in art. Is it time to look at them with...
‘A hat that borders on performance art’: How And Just Like That… gave us one of TV’s most bizarre fashion moments ever
“Carrie Bradshaw has always pushed the envelope with hats,” says Lauren Garroni of fashion/pop culture podcast and Instagram account, Every Outfit....
Minneapolis group works to preserve 2020 protest art after George Floyd’s death
Five years ago, during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, video of then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd...
Interior design – Medieval, Gothic, Ecclesiastical
From the fall of Rome, when the city was finally sacked by Odoacer in 476, to the 15th century, when the Renaissance was already well advanced, information...
Eva Zeisel | Hungarian-American Ceramicist & Designer
Eva Zeisel (born November 13, 1906, Budapest, Hungary—died December 30, 2011, New City, New York, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer and...
Christian Marclay | Biography, Art, The Clock, & Facts
Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955, San Rafael, California, U.S.) is a Swiss American visual artist and composer whose multidisciplinary work encompasses...
Dame Lucie Rie | Modernist, Ceramics, Porcelain
Dame Lucie Rie (born March 16, 1902, Vienna, Austria—died April 1, 1995, London, England) was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Her unique and complex...
Corcoran Gallery of Art | American art, 19th-century art, Impressionism
Corcoran Gallery of Art, museum in Washington, D.C., chartered by Congress in 1870 and established through the provisions made by the banker William W....
Interior design – Space, Function, Aesthetics
ramp functioning as a focal elementA ramp functioning as the focal element of an interior: the former V.C. Morris Shop, San Francisco, designed by Frank Lloyd...
