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
India, Aug. 29 -- A rare major retrospective dedicated to women who shaped the art world in the 17th century's Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent, B... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- Picture a prehistoric artist making markings in a cave. What do you see? Most of us picture a man. But archaeologists in Europe are now concluding that, judging by the size of finge... Read More
India, Aug. 8 -- * "Yesterday was a bad day.," a 12-year-old from Lombardia in Italy writes, during World War 1. "Today the sun barely shines and although it's just one o'clock there have already been... Read More
India, July 31 -- For millions of years, we lived on this planet but left no trace we were here. Tools changed that, and cave art. Then came architecture. Built habitation remains our stamp upon the ... Read More