India, Nov. 7 -- Name one legendary woman scientist who isn't Marie Curie. It's hard, and that isn't your fault. As suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage noted in her essay, Woman as an Inventor (1883), wo... Read More
India, Oct. 31 -- The Eiffel Tower was famously considered an eyesore, when it opened in 1889. Parisians mourned that their city had been scarred by this industrial-era metal behemoth. The writer Guy... Read More
India, Oct. 31 -- The Eiffel Tower was famously considered an eyesore, when it opened in 1889. Parisians mourned that their city had been scarred by this industrial-era metal behemoth. The writer Guy... Read More
India, Oct. 23 -- Six months after his mother Janet Rogers died, Simon Rogers, 58, found himself in a field in northern California, unable to sleep, feeling an overwhelming, disorienting sense of grie... Read More
India, Oct. 18 -- Wands, spellbooks, figurines. an exhibition that opened at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and has since travelled to New York, explores how magic, in its earliest avatars, wasn't ... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Wands, spellbooks, figurines. an exhibition that opened at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, and has since travelled to New York, explores how magic, in its earliest avatars, wasn't ... Read More
India, Oct. 10 -- There's a lot more to Japan's famous sakura tradition than gathering to admire cherry blossoms. This delicate annual rite is in fact a form of disaster-preparedness. Every winter, ... Read More
India, Sept. 18 -- India has famously told stories in stone. Think of the Taj Mahal. Khajuraho. The ancient cave art of Bhimbetka. There were emperors, kings and artists behind some of this work. But... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- We're not just in the Anthropocene (a geological era shaped by human activity). Some researchers argue that we are also in the Third Epidemiologic Transition: a time of diseases appe... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- It isn't your fault. The bias in art history goes all the way back (click here for this week's Wknd special on this). Even women revered in their lifetimes have faded from gallery wa... Read More