A wooden escalator of the 1930s in the Saint Anne pedestrian tunnel in Antwerp
A wooden escalator of the 1930s in the Saint Anne's pedestrian tunnel in Antwerp
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Warwick Rodwell studies skeleton from Roman sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey
The British archaeologist Warwick Rodwell, consultant to Westminster Abbey, has published a study of a skeleton that lay for many years in a Roman stone sarcophagus in the Abbey. The sarcophagus was made of limestone in the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Latin inscription on it states that the
Matisse exhibition in Lyubertsy with 120 lithographs and cut-outs, 30 October to 24 January
Henri Matisse in Lyubertsy 120 portraits and cut-outs by Matisse will be shown at an exhibition in the Lyubertsy Museum and Exhibition Complex. The combination of 120 lithographs with fragments of Matisse's texts reveals him as both artist and philosopher: for him art was not merely a
Nancy Cunard and Her Anthology “Negro”, Published in London in 1934
A title that, by today's standards, is seditious Nancy Cunard, heiress to the British shipping line Cunard Line, was a poet and a publisher, and in February 1934 she brought out, with the London house of Wishart, the anthology “Negro”, Negro Anthology 1931-1933. Cunard dedicated the book
Gustave Fayet at Fondation Louis Vuitton: 375 works, rugs, watercolours and ceramics
In 1896 Gustave Fayet, together with the sculptor Louis Paul, a former pupil of Rodin, founded a workshop in Béziers which by 1904 had produced more than a hundred items in stoneware, the name given to dense, high-fired ceramic. In 1898 these vases caught the eye of Siegfried Bing,