Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the contradictory nature of loneliness in the poem Childe Harold, juxtaposing the positive ...

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The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

A painting of a “merchant ship” at Ajanta Cave No. 17, indicating sea trade during the fifth century, inspired the Indian ...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries ... Africans who had been kidnapped and brought to America by Dutch and English slavers; unlike indentured servants, these laborers had no contracts and ...

Marta Pereya, a PhD in new communicative languages and the director of the museum project at the UNCA, says that they started with the audio description of short films and then studied ways of ...

Federal Express Corporation, the world’s largest express transportation company, today announces strategic improvements to its UK network, including plans to open two new state-of-the-art logistics ...

tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, spotlights this understudied corner of the early art ...

PAHANZ, a research initiative operating as a Charitable Trust, was established to find, document, and protect what remains of Aotearoa’s 20th Century public art (works made and installed in publ ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

Harris, batting at No. 4, struck his second century in four games to help Lancashire to 5-324 at stumps on day one against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford. The 263-ball knock, which included 15 ...

A pub which can trace its history back to the 17th Century is reopening after being closed for three years. The Blue Ball Inn in Triscombe, nestled in the Quantocks, was closed during the pandemic ...