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The Bayeux Tapestry comes back to England – and...
Men point at a long-tailed star above the words ISTI MIRANT STELLA. It was Halley's Comet – and the omen of 1066.
The Bayeux Tapestry comes back to England – and...
Men point at a long-tailed star above the words ISTI MIRANT STELLA. It was Halley's Comet – and the omen of 1066.
The Man on the Nose
On 21 February 1927 a Swiss seaplane came down off Cape Town after seventy-seven days in the air. The young man standing on its nose was my grandfather.
The Man on the Nose
On 21 February 1927 a Swiss seaplane came down off Cape Town after seventy-seven days in the air. The young man standing on its nose was my grandfather.
Nix et Glacies: The Oldest Snowball Fight in Eu...
Around 1390 a Lombard workshop was illustrating a Latin health handbook. When it reached the entry for snow and ice, the painter did not draw a doctrine. He painted two...
Nix et Glacies: The Oldest Snowball Fight in Eu...
Around 1390 a Lombard workshop was illustrating a Latin health handbook. When it reached the entry for snow and ice, the painter did not draw a doctrine. He painted two...
The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...
How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...
Why Henri Matisse Still Can't Cross the Atlantic
Matisse's late cut-outs became free to reproduce across the EU and UK in 2025. In the United States, the law is not so certain — and until we can say...
Why Henri Matisse Still Can't Cross the Atlantic
Matisse's late cut-outs became free to reproduce across the EU and UK in 2025. In the United States, the law is not so certain — and until we can say...