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Archaeologists Find Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug in Ancient Rome Skip to content A bust of Emperor Trajan surrounded by black henbane seends and flowers and a femur discovered by archaeologists (edit Valentina Di Liscia/ Hyperallergic ) Two new archaeological finds suggest Roman subjects at the northern edge of the ancient empire used a hallucinogenic and poisonous plant called black henbane, the effects of which were described by Greek philosopher Plutarch as “not so properly called drunkenness” but rather “alienation of mind or madness.” Dutch zooarchaeologists Maaike Groot and Martijn van Haasteren and archaeobotanist Laura I...

Yang Song’s Die features a clay mask of the artist himself slowly dissolving into water...

Photographer Endures Icy Temps to Photograph Arctic Animals Home / Photography / Wildlife Photography Photographer Endures Icy Temperatures to Photograph Beautiful Arctic Animals By Jessica Stewart on February 7, 2024 Photographer Konsta Punkka was just a teenager when he transformed his passion into a full-time career...

This photograph of Martin Creed himself was used as the invitation card for a fundraising auction of works on paper at Christie’s South Kensington in support of Camden Arts Centre’s first year in a refurbished building in 2005...

In a 2002 Pentagon press conference, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a question about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction with an unforgettable evasion: there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, the latter being the most precarious...

Modelled and rendered in 3D, Moving Target Shadow Detection by Sung Tieu reconstructs the entire interior of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana, the site of the first-known instance of a supposed sonic attack, which collectively became known as ‘Havana Syndrome’...

In the video The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011), Reid Kelley transported her heroine to the French demimonde...

Weekly Picks: Indonesia (1 - 7 April 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do April 1, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bali and Jakarta from 1-7 April 2019 Every year, on the 21st of April, Indonesia celebrates the life of one of her women’s emancipation figures, Kartini...

Three hours west of New York City is the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania...

Talking Head is a short film in black and white of Auder’s daughter Alexandra, hidden behind a hemp plant, playing with a plastic wrapper and babbling in an imaginative way...

Future of Hope - Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation About Us Mission & Vision The Collection Partners Contact Us Projects & Programming Majhi International Art Residency Elephant in the room Bhumi Future of Hope No Place Like Home News Press releases & News Interviews Features Search Search About Us Mission & Vision The Collection Partners Contact Us Projects & Programming Majhi International Art Residency Elephant in the room Bhumi Future of Hope No Place Like Home News Press releases & News Interviews Features About Us Mission & Vision The Collection Partners Contact Us Projects & Programming Majhi International Art Residency Elephant in the room Bhumi Future of Hope No Place Like Home News Press releases & News Interviews Features Search Future of Hope আশা ! 9 Invited Artists & Their Works Creative Transmission During Pandemic History and Present Pandora, in Greek mythology, the first woman...

After the decade-long conflict (1996-2006) that ended with Nepal becoming a Federal Democratic Republic, political unrest and weak governance continued to mark the country’s future as daily life repeatedly witnessed ruptures...

Tony Cokes’s long-form, multi-channel work Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 forms a layered montage of historical and contemporary source material exploring different periods of Munich’s history...

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (b...

Painting by René Magritte may fetch $64 million at auction marking century of surrealism | TribLIVE.com Art & Museums Painting by René Magritte may fetch $64 million at auction marking century of surrealism Associated Press Saturday, Feb...

In the video work Any Resemblance is Coincidental , CHEN Zhexiang mined portraits of real Asian criminals that were abandoned on the Internet...

This work is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created...

"KorSonoR" exposition-festival d'arts sonores et visuels - artpress X 9 octobre 2023 Dans AP Web , arts visuels “KorSonoR” exposition-festival d’arts sonores et visuels Par Félix Gatier...

The Big Book, 2014 504 pages, 7″ x 4-1/2″ Designed by Stripe SF/Jon Sueda Published by KADIST...