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Caroline Levitt examines La Fin du monde within the broader tradition of modernist artist’s books.
Caroline Levitt
May 21
The first ever English translation of La Fin du monde, The End of the World, as Filmed by the Angel of Notre-Dame.
Mark Polizzotti
May 21
Lauren Rosati looks at the visual program of La Fin du monde in the context of film and cinematic space in the early 1920s.
Lauren Rosati
May 21
Christopher Green considers the geopolitical and cultural factors that influenced La Fin du monde.
Christopher Green
May 21
Conservators have embarked on a multiyear study and treatment of two large, 16th-century sculptural groups from the chapel of the castle of Biron in Dordogne, France.
May 19
Conservators are undertaking a two-year project to reverse discoloration and correct infill on this 14th century Buddha of Medicine from a monastery in northern China.
April 30
Más allá del valor alimenticio de estas criaturas, en la antigüedad los caparazones de moluscos se empleaban para producir objetos de adorno personal y para actividades religiosas.
Adrián Velázquez Castro
February 24
Mollusk shells were transported as precious materials throughout the Americas and used to craft objects for religious activity and personal adornment.
Adrián Velázquez Castro
February 24
Early South Asian art depicted nature as divine—yakshas, yakshis, and nagas embodied fertility, water, and sacred power in human and hybrid form.
Harsha Gautam
February 18
Missives of love and the secret language of flowers in Victorian ephemera.
Nancy Rosin
February 13