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If you could step back in time and sip whisky to the beat of a double bass, Copenhagen’s Storyville Club in 1957 would be the place to...

Imagine strolling into a Viennese salon in the 1920s and finding a world of velvet drapes, bearskin rugs, gilded mirrors and glamorous...

Diane Arbus had a way of seeing people that most others overlooked. Through her lens, the outsiders and the unusual figures of New York...

Discover Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971), a daring typographic project by Anthon Beeke and collaborators, first published in Avant Garde magazine. A provocative blend of art, photography, and design history.

When Alma Mahler ended her passionate affair with artist Oskar Kokoschka, he struggled to let go. In his grief, Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll in her likeness—an eerie creation he wined, dined, and paraded through Vienna, before destroying it in a dramatic finale.

Long before CGI explosions and green screens, Buster Keaton was flinging himself off buildings, leaping onto moving trains, and surviving...

Imagine scrolling through a world without the internet, no Google search, no YouTube explainers, and certainly no AI assistants. In this...

It sounds like the setup for a surrealist joke: Salvador Dalí walks into a party and meets Walt Disney. But what happened next wasn’t a...

When Peter Beard went missing from his Montauk home in March 2020, the disappearance felt oddly poetic. A man who had survived being...

In the mid-1970s, a woman in her early forties began taking photographs for L’Ora , a small but politically active newspaper based in...

History is full of unsung heroes who have challenged societal norms and paved the way for progress. Among them are Marie Høeg and Bolette...

The Soviet Union may be long gone but for those who spent their childhood in its orbit, certain memories remain unusually vivid. Among...

In 1952, Jacques Léonard—born in 1909 in Paris—left behind a life of artistic opportunity and familiarity to settle in Barcelona, Spain....

Daniel and his bus In 1973, while David Bowie was busy reinventing glam rock and the three-day week loomed over British industry, a young...

In the bustling streets of post-war New York City, amidst a tide of returning soldiers, jazz clubs, and a booming urban life, Todd Webb...

In the chaos of war, one man’s photographs spoke louder than words ever could. Larry Burrows, a name synonymous with iconic images from...

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again…” These were among the final words Virginia Woolf ever committed to paper, penned in a...

Tucked away among the hills of Northern Lazio in Italy is a garden like no other. Imagine wandering through a lush landscape, turning a...

In 1917, amid the devastation of World War I, an American sculptor quietly boarded a ship to France, unaware she would soon transform...

In the heart of Victorian London, amidst a society obsessed with propriety, decorum, and rigid social structures, an unusual profession...

Francis James Mortimer was not just a photographer; he was a pioneer in pictorial photography, an adventurer at heart, and an artist with...

Tibetan Buddhism has a rich artistic tradition, with intricate thangka paintings and elaborate sculptures forming an essential part of...

In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the verge of something big. With  The Magnificent Seven  already cementing his place in...

For centuries, the Romani people have existed on the fringes of European society, a people without a homeland, constantly moving,...