The author of one of the most expensive and most unpractical books, Codex Seraphinianus, explains why he prefers to be called “poet” instead of “artist” and what his book has in common with the Bible.

Italian photographer Davide Sorrenti died at the age of 21. He was one of the main fashion photographers of ‘heroin chic’ that praised skin emaciated models. After Davide died those fighting against ...

Dresden was widely considered a gem of German Baroque architecture before World War II. In 1945, it lost its status when the joint British and American air strikes flattened its entire central part ...

Photographer Vlad Sokhin is working in Alaska, where he documents the effects of global warming. Bird In Flight publishes his diary once a week. Below is Vlad’s report from Kivalina — an island ...

Art photographer Michael Wesely films life in one frame – from photographs of flowers with a week-long exposure to a year-long architecture reconstruction. Michael Wesely’s works are more than ...

After World War 2, Polish architects decided to turn the ruined Warsaw into the best city in the world. Unlike future generations, their contemporaries did not appreciate the idea. Bird in Flight has ...

Military sleeve insignia can tell much more about the soldiers than their affiliation with a regiment or battalion. We have gathered some unusual insignia and found out how they came to be and what ...

A century ago a fascist party led by Benito Mussolini came into power in Italy. Mussolini ruled the country for two decades and tried to build his “Third Rome”, using the architecture of Ancient Rome ...

In old Hollywood movies, characters traveling would often stop at small, brightly-colored motels. They were popular in the United States, but now they are going through a crisis — some of the ...

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Yulia always related to anti-war ideas of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, she did sketches on his animations in order to distract herself from the daily troubles. And then the war struck in her ...

Місяць тому артдетектив відшукав твір Ван Гога — зараз йому повернули ще 6 викрадених картин ...