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Henry Scott Tuke (June 12, 1858–March 13, 1929) was an English artist, best known for his paintings of young men.

Beth Cavener (born 1972) is an American artist based in Montana. Classically trained, her process involves creating intricate metal armatures that support her large-scale clay sculptures. Cavener is best known for her fantastical animal figures, which serve as allegories of…

Dressed in skirts adorned with coins and tassels, male belly dancers are making a comeback, swaying their hips and rippling their abs to hypnotic Turkish beats. Known as “zennes,” these performers were once a mainstay at the courts of Ottoman…

The Night of the Hunter is an American Southern Gothic horror-thriller film starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. It premiered July 26, 1955, in Des Moines, Iowa, to negative reviews. It is Charles Laughton’s only directorial feature. Over…

Costa Dvorezky, born in Russia in 1968, studied at the Art College and the Academy of Arts in Moscow. He now lives and works in Toronto.

Kunstformen der Natur—Art Forms in Nature—is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904 and collectively in two volumes in 1904, it consists of 100 prints…

Los Angeles-based photographer Blake Little created a conceptual portrait series of human bodies covered with honey.

Fayum portraits were painted on wooden boards and attached to upper-class mummies in Imperial-Roman-era Egypt, from the late first century BC until the middle of the third century AD.

South Korean Special Warfare Forces conduct their cold endurance training, carrying out their maneuvers shirtless and vigorously rubbing their naked torsos with snow…