He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

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A Bay Area artist is transforming pages from damaged books into works of art through "Book Art and Other Oddities." She now ...

In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that have served as instruments of ...

Al Hilal leads the table in the 2024-25 AFC Champions League Elite with 16 points, while Persepolis sits sixth in the 12-team table of the west zone with just six points out of six matches. Persepolis ...

For self-taught illustrator Shelley Aldrich, tunnel books inspire a series of vibrant books and folded visual narratives.

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

The Madison artist and New York Times best-selling author Pat Zietlow Miller have teamed up for “Unstoppable John: How John ...

Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...

In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys.

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