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Zhang Kechun; Under the Abandoned Pier, 2013-2014. Zhang, 34, spent years shooting photos along the Yellow River. The figures are tea sellers. Zhang Kechun/Courtesy of Three Shadows +3 Gallery Liu Di/Courtesy of Pekin Fine Arts ...
Deaccessioning — the permanent removal of an object from a museum's collection — has been a big issue in Detroit. When the city declared bankruptcy, it had to put all of its assets on the table. Turns out, the most valuable asset was the art collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sometimes museums get in trouble. Deep trouble. Not because ...
All roads lead from Rome, according to a visual history of human culture built entirely from the birth and death places of notable people. The 5-minute animation provides a fresh view of the movements of humanity over the last 2,600 years. Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues used the Google-owned knowledge base, Freebase, to find 120,000 individuals who were notable enough ...
The colorful West Indian Day Parade wound through the streets of Brooklyn Monday. Monday’s procession was part of the West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival, which is in its 47th year. Emmanuel Pierre (right) and others in Monday’s parade. The celebration typically draws about 1 million people. Last year, organizers said it was the “largest cultural festival ...
Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya is one of the women featured on Jason Porath's blog Rejected Princesses. Oktyabrskaya was the first female tanker to ever win the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Many of us have come to know the tales of Disney's princesses by heart. But put Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel aside for a ...
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