Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...

In brief: Microsoft has introduced numerous GenAI functions to promote Copilot+ PCs, including new image editing tools for Paint that just came out of beta. Notably, the new tools are not ...

So the pair came up with something unique called "Magic Realism: Paintings by Paul Emory ... pieces with the earliest dating back to 1990. "Expressionistic. Provocative. They make you think ...

Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...

Tlon Industries has released a demo for side-scrolling base-building survival game Kentum for PC via Steam. The demo features the opening hours of the game, allowing players to explore its first ...

A dad’s hilariously bad portraits have gone viral - and now he is flooded with paid art commissions worldwide.. Jamie Matthias’s side-hustle started by accident after he painted a “terrible ...

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ordered the seizure of two "offensive" paintings by MF Husain, one of India's most famous artists. The court on Monday granted permission for the police ...

A fresh coat of paint can have a bold, immediate impact on the look and feel of any interior space — the challenge is picking the right colour from all the options available, ranging from ...