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Art History majors face the worst employment prospects of any profession after graduating from college, a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has...
Almost like the rapidly fading recollections of a dream, Sophie von Hellermann’s paintings capture the otherwise intangible sensation of a fleeting moment held in the mind’s...
Lobster telephones, raining men in gray suits and bowler hats, and the stuff of unconscious dreams, are some imagery that automatically come to mind with Surrealism....
At the end of 1964, a 25-year-old man from Japan stood on the deck of a massive ocean liner. The winter was cold, and he was...
Ever since being salvaged by sponge divers in the Greek Mediterranean in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism has captured the imaginations of archaeologists and scientists with penchant...
The oldest known example of figurative rock art has been identified in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Three human-like figures that appear to...
If New York City Tourism is in need of inspiration, it would do well to stop by Poster House. A new exhibition at the Chelsea museum,...
The gold watch worn by the Titanic’s richest passenger, John Jacob Astor, has set an auction record as the most expensive item of Titanic memorabilia. A...