His 19th-century images span street scenes ... prints on display in Beijing for the first time. The exhibition’s scope ran from the 1850s, the very genesis of paper photographs in China ...

His 19th-century images span street scenes ... prints on display in Beijing for the first time. The exhibition’s scope ran from the 1850s, the very genesis of paper photographs in China ...

Still, photography posed an obvious challenge to 19th-century painters. Caillebotte felt an unusually intimate rivalry with the medium, linked, perhaps, with sibling rivalry: His younger brother ...

In 1814, David Brewster had an epiphany: light + casing + mirrors + things to reflect = the most fun ever? The Scottish scientist—already esteemed for his work in optics—named his invention the ...

A lot inside the eminent Scope tent at Art Basel appealed to the "shock factor." Like that very detailed line diagram of a woman giving a man anal pleasure. Or the massive installation display of ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

With amateur dramatics becoming increasingly popular in the 19th century, in my ongoing research ... by widening the scope, other clues come to the fore. In a production of Jupiter in 1894 ...

and the project's scope has since expanded worldwide. The Poison Book Project is ongoing, but 50 percent of the 19th century cloth-case bindings tested so far contain lead in the cloth across a ...