Anne Umland: The Italian artist Gino Severini painted Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin in 1912, when he was living in Paris. Severini's goal, like that of his fellow Italian Futurists, was to ...
Curator, Anne Umland: When I first look at this work, it feels a little bit like what you might experience if you walk into a very crowded, noisy room. It was inspired by a very popular Paris ...
China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China. Measures such as genetic improvement and monitoring of planting environments have contributed to this advance, which has occurred alongside ...
Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so-called ...
We all have a favorite Chinese spot that we swear by, but you may have already figured that your usual General Tso’s chicken isn’t exactly authentic. Many popular menu items in the U.S. are heavily ...