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What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...
The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...
One day, you may come across a piece of AI-generated art worthy of being hung in a museum. Amjad muses on what that means for the future of art.
At Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, the artist merges seemingly incompatible visual traditions, challenging the binary thinking ...
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What Was Socrates’s Daemon?
Socrates, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, was put to death in Athens on charges of impiety and corruption. In his own ...
A personal loss reveals a national crisis—how blind faith in alternative medicine is costing lives in modern India, where ...
The beginning and end of that period — one of the most famous in the history of art — bracketed Paul Gauguin ... Roulin had “a head something like that of Socrates,” Vincent wrote ...
Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?
A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.
As a college senior, I wanted to be Socrates and approached people at the Art Institute, which to me was the Chicago ... You write that Socrates believed humans struggle most with politics, love and ...