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Poetry, Tea and Tao

In 1908, New York merchant Thomas Sullivan packaged tea samples into hand-sewn muslin bags, intending for his customers to empty the leaves into hot water. Some though, unsure what to do, submerged them in their tea pot and the tea bag...

Sanctus Luxurri

As they set about following the migration paths that had been trodden for centuries before them, setting up camps and providing for the necessities of life, ancient people managed to surround themselves with sanctus luxurii, an ensemble...

Ancient Trade and Civilization

Ancient trade originated in the migratory patterns of prehistoric nomadic people who ranged over long distances across the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, for thousands of years...
Unified by Art Nouveau

Unified by Art Nouveau

One of the highlights of the exhibition is the recreation of a 1900s room in Art Nouveau style, indicating that another key feature of the movement was the way that people began to appreciate furniture, interior and products as aspects of an environment unified through design...newly rich people wanted to decorate their home in their own, new style..."
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

"Throughout its history, tea has been a prevalent theme in the visual arts — tea-related scenes embellish ceramics and textiles and form the subject of paintings and drawings, and all manner of vessels have been fashioned for its preparation and presentation."
Book Review | In Such Hard Times

Book Review | In Such Hard Times

"For Wei, poetry was a habit, a mode of autobiography and being. He lived at a time and in a place when, whatever else was going on, educated people wrote poems the way we text or tweet. Wei somewhat dolefully observes..."
Sargent and the Sea

Sargent and the Sea

In Sargent and the Sea, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together for the first time more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal...
Early music discovered on carving

Early music discovered on carving

"To find out that it might be early harp music was very exciting indeed, and having the chance to hear it..."
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

"With my imagination struck by the immensity and power of Nature, I would have really wanted to render the grand spectacles that she unrolls..."
Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese

Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese

These three painters were to rub shoulders for over thirty years, and after Titian’s death in 1576..
Haymakers Resting, Camille Pissarro (1891)

Haymakers Resting, Camille Pissarro (1891)

In Camille Pissarro’s rural images of harvesting and shepherding, sensuous color is often a gradually nuanced pool of light that mirrors the movement..."
Couleurs et Lumière

Couleurs et Lumière

"Son regard de peintre en matière de couleur et de composition, sa passion pour l’exotisme et ses innovations dans le domaine du verre font de lui, dès 1900, un chef de file du design américain dont la réputation s’étend jusque dans les grandes capitales européennes : il rivalise avec les grands verriers européens de la fin du XIXe siècle."
Tiny Shell Beads Point To Ancient Fashion Trend

Tiny Shell Beads Point To Ancient Fashion Trend

"For scientists, beads are not simply decoration, they also represents a specific technology that conveys information through a shared coded language."
Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain

"Sir Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent both adopted a kind of buttery, flashy paint-handling that derives from Velázquez..."
Elaborations of the Spirit

Elaborations of the Spirit

The Impressionist engagement of nature concurred with the primal human experience of nature, which depended on submitting life to both the measured...
Book Review | The Origins of Globalization

Book Review | The Origins of Globalization

"The Shang and Zhou eras are pictured as a golden age where everyone knew his or her place in the great harmonious hierarchy of Chinese life. Rulers ruled and everyone farmed..."