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The communications guru, columnist and university chancellor digs current affairs books, but his favourite read is a Pulitzer ...
In the early 1860s, Governor of Bombay Sir Bartle Frere’s decision to demolish the Bombay Fort heralded the Victorian Gothic era in the city ... The 1900s saw the arrival of the Art Deco-style: the ...
How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...
Curated by Nathaniel Gaskell and Shrey Maurya, Ticket Tika Chaap offers a compelling experience of the world of commercial labels and how they shaped consumerism during the colonial era.
By Catherine Hickley Reporting from Berlin A new chapter has opened in a bitter 17-year battle for the Guelph Treasure, one of the most valuable art troves claimed by the heirs of Jewish victims ...
Though he lived in a society that needed witness borne as have few others, his work lacked the prominence and recognizability ...
The artist is 87 now and under constant medical care. But he was determined to make it to Paris for the exhibition of his life. David Hockney in 1987 at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. This month ...
Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know ... David Zivie, of France's culture ministry, heads the mission for research and return of Nazi-era looted property.
An unrepentant lifetime smoker, David Hockney, 87, wheezes from respiratory difficulties. He sleeps during some of the day and is watched over by round-the-clock nurses. His deafness, the first ...
Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the ...