The 18th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. It left Australia in early May, trained in Egypt from mid-June until mid-August, and on 22 ...
The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...
The Century has more than 2,000 members, and journalists make up merely a fraction of them, outnumbered by academics, artists, lawyers, philanthropists, architects, and other public-intellectual ...
The only thing still standing at Camilla Taylor’s home and art studio in Altadena, California, is the chimney. The wildfires consumed her house and the studio, as well as hundreds of artworks ...
By Robin Pogrebin Major museums like the Getty and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with philanthropists like Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar and foundations ...
“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.
On Wednesday, June 29th, Andrew Jones Auctions will present, via an Online-Only Auction, property from the different collections of two Hollywood legends: Dino & Martha DeLaurentiis and Mitzi Gaynor.
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...
The burly Vidarbha batter has a thing for finishing among the top when it comes to the record books—he is only the second India batter to have scored a triple ton after Virender Sehwag and the ...
Since 2015, the centenary year of Gandhi’s return, the format was revised for the meeting to be held once every two years. 4. The 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention is being organized in ...