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Great British Cars celebrates the cars commonly seen on the nation’s roads during a golden age of motoring. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britons drove such models as the Ford Zephyr, Hillman Imp, Triumph Herald, Ford Capri, Vauxhall Viva and, of course, the Morris Minor 1000. While rarely seen now...

Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North...

Inspiration for this book was the Colombian fashion designer Adriana Santacruz, who was chosen to be Colombian fashion Ambassadeur and is representing her country at the Paris Fashion Week 2014. Her thoughts and philosophy of creation of the new design and preservation of good old traditions, followed...

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design...

A catalog of primarily visual artworks-on-paper, this collection is the work of a creative duo that makes up the collaborative entity, Black Kirby. Their art celebrates the groundbreaking work of legendary comic creator Jack Kirby and functions as a highly syncretic mytho-poetic framework by appropriating...

More than 120 full color postcard illustrations from the leading online animation network. Over the past 10 years, Channel Frederator’s become the world’s biggest animation network, built, film by film, by thousands of animators across the globe. Each of the creators completely controls their own...

In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed—the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the...

Grandes figuras de la literatura peruana del siglo XX como Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, José María Arguedas, Ciro Alegría, Martín Adán, Julio Ramón Ribeyro y Sebastián Salazar Bondy fueron fotografiados en los años 60 en Lima y en París por el español Baldomero Pestana (1918-2015)....

The second issue of Beechwood Review features minimalist writing and art – including haiku, flash fiction, and visual art – from 72 contributors. This issue highlights space, the gaps between milestones, life, and death, after which the world keeps moving. It questions: does nothing only exist...

A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair. Listeners delighted in...

This impressive collection of engravings illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeare takes a new look at the long-neglected area of romantic early-19th-century art. Nearly 100 illustrations depict dramatic scenes from A**Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tempest, Two Gentlemen...

Anyone who has observed cats for a while has probably noticed how closely they resemble their wild counterparts who make their living in the desert and forests of the world. We seem to see in our domestic cats a reflection of their wild counterparts, and we thrill to the mystique sense of danger that...

Après Georges de La Tour, c'est Lorenzo Lotto, autre «reconquête» de l'histoire de l'art, qui a été mis a l'honneur à Paris au Grand Palais, d'octobre 1998 à janvier 1999, dans une rétrospective qui fut d'abord présentée à la National Gallery of Art de Washington puis à l'Accademia Carrara...

Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks...