With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...

In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the dang...

This is a fascinating look at one of the world's most important and renowned 12th-century manuscripts. "The St. Albans Psalter" is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between...

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational soc...

Not for sale in Estonia! Discovering the city through the magic of pop-ups. The marvels of Venice, a magical city suspended like a dream between water and sky... For children, Venice is a Wunderkammer in the literal sense of the term, full of surpr...

Not for sale in Estonia! A trip to the discovery of jewelry manufacturing. Founded in Paris in 1896, Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps the most renowned maison of fine jewelry in the world. The book reveals for the first time the secrets of the Mains d...

For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the...

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the "Nouveaux Realistes" (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, "The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual...

The contemporary art world has been challenged and invigorated by outsider art – works by self-taught practitioners who, by definition, have little to do with mainstream art production, but are nonetheless actively engaged with the visual culture of...

This book offers a new look at works by notable French artists represented in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Colour reproductions of fifty-eight works – ranging from chalk drawings by Charles Francois Daubigny and Ed...