An exhibition at Tefaf Maastricht presents 18th-century city plans not merely as scientific tools of the age, but great works of art in their own right ...
This exhibition invites visitors to experience the French art de vivre of the aristocratic and bourgeois elites on the eve of ...
Last summer, Le Menthéour scoured the archives of the National Academy of Medicine in Paris to get at answers. He unearthed intriguing treatises, he says, that focused on hygiene, a term that then ...
Rune Bergmann lives in Oslo, but on any given day of the week might find himself in Switzerland, Calgary or Wisconsin, where he’s the music director for three separate organizations.
Race did not spread because it was scientifically persuasive. It spread because it served very human interests.” ...
Next week marks the 250th anniversary of one of the greatest revolutions in human history. I am not talking of the unrest in the Americas which, at the start of March 1776, was still largely a matter ...
To outsiders, France may seem to have any number of things to be proud of - from a strong culture of workers' rights to the ...
A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed ...
The 1970s were alive with protest and new sounds, giving rise to idioms that captured the decade’s spirit and the deep ...
The phenomenon of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) is nothing new. In his literary masterpiece, Republic, Plato (428-347 B.C.) writes of the battlefield death of Er only to somehow return from the ...
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is the real deal, a genuine coal-fired steam locomotive that’s been hauling ...
For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...
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