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For the philosopher, unhappiness became not a condition but a vocation. Imagine an educated, affluent European in his late twenties, seemingly one of fortune’s favored, who suffers from crippling feelings of despair and guilt. For no apparent reason, he breaks up with the woman everyone thought he was going to marry—not because he loves someone... Continue Reading →
The CIPA Emerging Professionals, ICOMOS, NSERC Create Heritage Engineering Programme and the National Trust for Canada invites you to attend the Accessing Heritage Places from Home webinar on May 7th at 10 am – 12 pm (EST). Register! More information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cipaep
As part of a website refresh, The British Museum has made over 1.9 million photos of its collections freely available to the public. Visitors to their online collections website can download images, and share & adapt them for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Museum director Hartwig Fischer said of the refresh: The British... Continue Reading →
Museums in Quarantine Series 1, Episode 2 of 4 Historian Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the Young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, currently in lockdown. The exhibition charts the first ten years of the Dutch master’s career, when the miller’s son from Leiden became the superstar of... Continue Reading →
There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of peeling back the label on a well-used crayon and adding the last dabs of color to the outlined illustration of a coloring book page. With this past decades’ introduction of mass-market adult coloring books, book stores and home goods markets alike have added coloring book materials to... Continue Reading →
“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” I woke up this morning to discover a tiny birch tree rising amidst my city quasi-garden, having overcome unthinkable odds to float its seed over heaps of concrete and... Continue Reading →
The documentary chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians, at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor (Turkey), Pontos, and Eastern Thrace as part of the Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing of its... Continue Reading →
The Golden Age of Illustration is typically dated between 1880 and the early decades of the 20th century. This was “a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration,” writes Artcyclopedia; the time of artists like John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter (below), Arthur Rackham, and Aubrey Beardsley. Some of the most prominent illustrators, such as Beardsley and... Continue Reading →
The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the museum landscape. As expected, most institutions turned to social media but should museums think differently when trying to bridge a physical and virtual reality? This webinar shall explore the ways and means how institutions can sustain relevance over time even when circumstances dictate closure. It shall... Continue Reading →
«Κάθε φορά που πλάγιαζα μαζί του, ένιωθα ότι πλάγιαζα με τον Ερμή». Η θυελλώδης σχέση του Ίωνα Δραγούμη με τη Μαρίκα Κοτοπούλη και η αφοσίωσή του στη «Μεγάλη Ιδέα» Στις 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 1878 ο Ίων Δραγούμης γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα. Ήταν γόνος σημαντικής οικογένειας, καθώς ο πατέρας του είχε διατελέσει πρωθυπουργός και οι συγγενείς του εργάστηκαν στο... Continue Reading →
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