War was everywhere, and one of the features of ... I'm walking through the galleries of the British Museum heading for a stone sphinx. Sphinxes - statues with a lion's body and a man's head ...

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The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum holds many of American artist Winslow Homer's drawings and paintings of soldiers. Learn how World War I marked a turning point with the appearance of ...

It became known as dazzle camouflage. So how did Wilkinson use art to fight the war at sea? In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman ...

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By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another.

I share tips about launching, validating and growing startups. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a renowned ancient Chinese military treatise that has been studied and applied for centuries.

Across the world, in the German city of Kassel, the scars of World War II are etched into the environment ... shared a commonality: the power of art and festivals to heal. In the aftermath ...

Some archeologists have noticed that the human head of the Great Sphinx of Giza is too small for it's lion body. One theory is that the sphinx was originally not a sphinx at all. (03:40 ...

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In the past two years Russia and Ukraine have fought a costly war of attrition. That is unsustainable. When Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to America to see President Joe Biden this week ...

EVER SINCE Hamas’s attacks on Israel a year ago, the biggest fear in oil markets has been that tensions would escalate into a full-blown regional war pitting Israel against Iran, the world’s ...