Art School: The Great Enemy of Aesthetic Tradition
By Alice Crawford McKinty The trope of the talentless, directionless art graduate has loomed large in the public imagination for...
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The Metal Question
By Brendan Heard. Let me tell you a very strange story. The story of one of those quirky facts that...
The Artifacts of Christmas: Saturn and Solstice
The period of feasting and merrymaking surrounding the winter solstice (Christmas) is an ancestral practice of truly archaic origins, with...
The Ptolemaic Dynasty & the Great Library of Alexandria
The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt was a mysterious and unique reference point in classical history, particularly in regards its fundamental...
Why automation is not going to happen
There is much talk of our automated future. Robots and machines of ever-increasing power gradually eliminating the need for busy...
Baroque Architecture
The Baroque epoch (1584-1780) was an era of lush and evocative architecture and interiors, an era when art styles and...
The Golden Ratio: a formula for beauty
The formula for beauty that has been handed down to us is the Golden Ratio, also called the Golden Mean...