Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan shows the cultural complexity of inhabitants of the Eurasian steppe about 2500 years ago. … Read the post nomads of Eurasian steppe not only in idyllic natural world
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz’s sublime fabrics of memory unforgettably remember in details life in a Polish village wiped out in the Holocaust. … Read the post unforgettable fabrics of memory
A millennium ago, the Persian poet Firdawsi completed his epic poem the Shahnama. Artists instantiated this lengthy verbal text in illustrated books. Lavishly illustrated pages from Shahnamas produced for wealthy patrons from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries are displayed in the exhibition Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings, now at the Sackler … Continue reading illustrating the Shahnama
Could a green light signal stop? Could a red light signal continue naturally? Perhaps, but the colors used for traffic lights seem to have deeper psychological significance than merely a social convention.[1] From early mass market prints to modern display devices, the details of coloring do not greatly affect the strong human preference for colored … Continue reading the fine art of coloring
A guard at Revealing Culture stopped visitors from taking photographs. That doesn’t make art accessible. Embrace sharing to make art accessible. … Read the post making art exhibits accessible