Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog
The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
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Timo Fahler’s Stained-Glass Sculptures Question Symbols and Curtailed Freedoms
Mesoamerican codices, national symbols, and motifs found in older European churches inspire Timo Fahler's mixed-media works.
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The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...
She Was Chosen to Help Rebuild Notre-Dame. Then Fire Hit Her Adopted City, Too.
Claire Tabouret, an artist in Los Angeles, was chosen to create new stained glass windows for the Paris cathedral. She never ...
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Forgotten Muslim builders gave medieval Europe its iconic architecture
Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.
Bauhaus and The Brutalist: the revolutionary immigrant architects whose stories inspired the film
Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.
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Germany
German voters go to the polls on 23 February in a pivotal vote focused on immigration and the economy. A look at the conservative leader who broke a German taboo by accepting support from the AfD ...
The 'Mona Lisa' will get its own room under a major renovation of the Louvre
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the "Mona Lisa" will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...
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'Mona Lisa' will get its own room under 10-year renovation of Louvre in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre ...