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An artist's studio is a crucial space. Our creative studios may sometimes appear cluttered or chaotic, yet this is where remarkable...

Tourists take tea atop the Great Pyramid. 1938. By the mid-19th century, Egypt had become one of the world’s most fascinating...

Danzig Baldaev, born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya, Russia, led a life immersed in the dark complexities of Soviet repression and the underworld of criminal prisons. His journey into the world of Russian criminal tattoos began in a most unlikely way. As the son of a so-called "enemy of the people," Baldaev's early years were marked by displacement, orphanages, and the deep scars left by Stalin’s purges. Yet, after World War II, fate directed him into the cold, harsh environm