art, and cosmetics, were burned in a public display of religious fervor led by the radical preacher Girolamo Savonarola. Savonarola, a Dominican friar, had gained significant influence by ...

Her lecture focused on the artwork lost and then rediscovered from the Armenian genocide, and how the destruction of art correlates to the destruction of a people’s history. She also wrote a ...

On 2 and 3 March 1498, the 29-year-old aspirant civil servant Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was among a crowd that gathered at the Convent of San Marco in Florence to hear a fiery sermon given by ...

Established in 1929 by Sunset Magazine's creative director, Richard S. Stephens, Academy of Art University transforms aspiring students into professional artists & designers. He believed that ...

As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for marking its memories in the public mind. By Sam Lubell Christie’s ...

This year’s annual festival at Santa Maria Assunta in Malamocco on Venice’s Lido included the heartfelt celebration of the return of Giulia Lama’s enigmatic Virgin in Prayer following its ...

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February 21, 2025 • Several entertainers and artists have severed ties with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since President Trump assumed chairmanship of the organization.

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Didier Fassin’s book surveys this moral abdication, focusing on how many western states and institutions have actively consented to the destruction of Gaza, particularly by obstructing and ...