The matchlock was simply a means of lowering the fuse when a trigger ... but there are weapons of great beauty that can credibly aspire to be works of art and which will attract interest from a wider ...

Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries. By Holland Cotter The darkly comic ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Art Schallock, a left-handed pitcher who in 1951 replaced future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle on the Yankees' roster and had been the oldest living former major leaguer ...

The toilet, an artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was fully functioning while on exhibit at Blenheim Palace - the Oxfordshire country house where Sir Winston Churchill was born - when it ...

his guard armed with modern rifles and old matchlocks.” In the late afternoon, they finally arrived at Ori-gol. A Japanese inn there stood in the center of a walled enclosure. Entering through ...

Born on April 2, 1917 in Manila, Philippines, he studied commercial art at the University of the Philippines School of Fine Arts before studying in Madrid and then under the French painter Henri ...

This hidden math in some abstract paintings may even underlie our ability to recognise such artwork as depictions of trees, according to the research, published in the journal PNAS Nexus.

Reproductions of Vettriano’s work became the best-selling artwork in Britain. When the original painting went under the hammer at Sotheby’s Hopetoun House sale in 2004, it sold for £744,800 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Students and teachers at a Staten Island school recently spent a week spreading kindness through friendship bracelets, parades and more. PS/I.S. 48, Concord, recently ...

I'd actually love to see more games embrace matchlock, wheellock, and flintlock firearms, and I think there are ways to make the slow rate of fire feel rewarding if a game is designed properly ...