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A Unique Portfolio of Hilma af Klint’s Botanical Drawings Communes with Nature’s Spiritual Side

With the Industrial Revolution in full swing at the turn of the 20th century, jobs and opportunities attracted people to burgeoning cities. New technologies were…

a oval ceramic work with gray hair that ombres to brown with an edge of woven basket and plant-like pieces

From Porcelain Buttercream to Bruises, Jessica Stoller Examines the Gendered Body

The early 1780s produced a medical training tool that today seems unusually macabre and unsettling: the Anatomical Venus. A waxen model with real human hair…

two bronze figures lay on the floor with flowers growing from them

Nick Cave’s Nearly 26-Foot Bronze Stands for Resistance Amid Oppression

Whether weaving plastic pony beads into a monumental sculpture, adorning figures with mother-of-pearl buttons, or mosaicing ceramic tile across a New York subway station, Nick…