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A Texas company — driven by a mission to create faster, better and more affordable housing — is 3D printing homes. It's also working with NASA to 3D print on the Moon. Lesley Stahl reports.
Art forms in nature : the prints of Ernst Haeckel by Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919. Publication date 1998 Topics Zoology -- Pictorial works, Botany -- Pictorial works, Nature (Aesthetics), Morphology ...
The arrests had taken place months after a deadly Islamic State attack on the Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. While the ...
According to art consultant and author Anupa Mehta, “In postmodernist art, artists draw from eclectic sources. Sometimes these ‘borrowings’ are in part and used within an art work, as part of its ...
Sara Rehman, the first-ever executive director of Houston's Islamic Arts Society, and calligraphy artist Sana Mirza discuss the deeply spiritual visual medium of Islamic art.
A condom featuring an erotic art print, believed to have been made from a sheep's appendix around 1830, is seen on display inside the Netherlands' Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.
While headlines suggest a slump, the art market is expanding thanks to young collectors and prints priced under $50,000. Kevin Czopek/BFA.com This surge in sales below $50,000 isn’t limited to ...
In the playwright Sarah Ruhl’s new book, “Lessons from My Teachers,” she writes of a period in her life when she—by then a celebrated dramatist, a parent, and a professor at Yale—“was ...
On view in the Print Room, the condom forms part of a display on 19th-century prostitution and sexuality that also includes several prints, drawings and photographs. The display runs until the end of ...
More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living creatures, especially human beings. Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic ...