Calder-Miro friendship leaves trace a century later
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They boxed together, exchanged works and borrowed ideas over decades. Seventy-five years later the extraordinary friendship between abstract art giants Joan Miro and Alexander Calder still leaves its mark.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 60 years after the end of World War Two, German author Bernhard Schlink found the time was right to explore the guilt and moral conflicts which were a legacy of his home country's Nazi past.
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Scratch Code shows that 'new media' art isn't so 21st-century -- many of the works were done decades ago. By Rachel Metz.
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David Lindleyâs new book about the development and impact of Werner Heisenbergâs uncertainty principle provides a useful prÃ©cis of the mind-blowing progress of physics in the early 20th century.
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Sculptor Jean Tinguely and the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, perhaps drawn to each other by passion, were able to create art together that neither could have realized alone.
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In the early 20th century, artists and religious leaders in the Midwest outdid each other building vast shrines called grottos. Many of these eccentric constructions remain significant attractions today. Michelle Delio reports from Dickeyville, Wisconsin.
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Rivers of ice at the Equator &#151; foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th &#151; are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
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Two writers with different media roles, but finding synchrony on some aspects of global warming.
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Two brothers from Australia and Argentina who lost contact for 53 years were reunited by chance after recognizing each other on a trip to their native Portugal.
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Four years ago, on the other side of the world, Doug Mientkiewicz's life was about to change.
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Two Times journalists found that the conflict could bring them closer together when not pushing them apart.
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The Metropolitan Museum provides a fascinating portrait of two brothers whose relationship might not have been exemplary but whose practices offer plenty of lessons for contemporary collectors.
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Two sisters who survived the Holocaust and moved separately to Israel were reunited after 61 years with the help of a high-tech database, a spokeswoman from the Israel Holocaust memorial said Sunday.
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Knesset approval of Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan was billed as a historic decision. It could also be a case of history repeating itself, writes Graham Usher.
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LOS ANGELES - Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles are celebrating the anniversary of the first message sent over what would eventually become the internet.
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Analysis: Border disputes and Chinese ties with Pakistan have long divided them, but business could bring them together
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The Metropolitan Museumâs collection features some of the great 20th-century photographers who devoted themselves to capturing quiet, overlooked everyday phenomena.