Admiring spectacular architecture, which includes some of the best examples of Baroque and Rococo, is one of the things to do ...

Thrift stores are choc full of porcelain figurines that once lined a grandmother's curio cabinet. Many people only think to purchase these outdated figures for upcycling projects, like spray-painting ...

In 1717, for example, Augustus traded 600 of his dragoons with Frederick William I of Prussia in return for 151 pieces of Chinese blue and white porcelain. While at his “Dutch Palace” in Dresden, he ...

Old methods, modern art One company dragging Dresden’s traditions into the modern world is Meissen, a high-end ceramics company that, in 1710, created Europe’s first porcelain.

• Rosalind Joy Savill, born Lyndhurst, Hampshire 12 May 1951; museum assistant, department of ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1973-74; museum assistant, Wallace Collection, London ...

A still from the documentary "Porcelain War" is pictured. When not training neophyte Ukrainian warriors, Slava creates porcelain figurines from clay.

The Great Exhibition Within the context of the V&A, Cole (1808-1882) is perhaps best known as one of the founding figures and first Director, from 1857, of the museum’s predecessor institution, the ...

Robert Pinsky revisits Czesław Miłosz’s poem “Song on Porcelain,” and asks what Americans have valued in their own cultural past that might now feel lost or troubling.

The Ukrainian film Porcelain War, about artists defiantly at work during a time of war, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the best feature documentary category for the 2025 Oscars ...

A scene from "Porcelain War." Fellow artist Andrey Stefanov follows one of the newly trained military units into battle, where they drop small bombs from drones, painted by Anya Stasenko.

A Picturehouse release, “Porcelain War” opens November 22 in New York City at the IFC Center and on November 29 in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center.