In this context, the epithet Oriental refers to those woven along the Silk Route: in China, India, Persia, Turkey and the Caucasus. Early examples from the 15th and 16th centuries (carpet weaving ...

The dance has taken different shapes throughout history. Romanticism art first emerged in France and Britain in the late 18th century, soon after the rise of the Industrial Revolution, as a way to ...

Stephenson said the extent of the wreckage shown by the scans was jarring because the scans remove the human bias and romanticism that has been associated with the Titanic. They also provide a new ...

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–76), Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78), and studied mime and ...

What happens when opera is pushed to the far reaches of the socially acceptable, artistically expected, narratively conventional, and formally structured? You end up with controversial productions, ...

And around the Artnet News (virtual) water cooler, we couldn’t help but notice a striking similarity between two of the deaths and one of art history’s most famous paintings. (If you haven’t ...

Sam Altman says AI means more people can now create art — and that's a "net win" for society. The OpenAI CEO defended generative tools after backlash over Ghibli-style images made with ChatGPT.

Federal judge blocks Trump order that could disenfranchise millions of voters Elon Musk says he's refocusing on Tesla. Satellite images show Musk's growing business empire in Texas. Thousands of ...

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I explore the variety of Art Deco architecture and design across the country. Here are seven of my favourite examples of Art Deco in Scotland. In the inter-war era, despite bleak economic ...

Well, the new AI Image Generator block has taken social media users by storm. Open AI, the company behind its AI chat assistant ChatGPT, now allows users to create images or convert basic images into ...