Palantir is one of the world’s most valuable companies, analyzing data for businesses, but also for U.S. and Israeli ...

Donna Haraway in Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016), directed by Fabrizio Terranova (all images courtesy Icarus Films) Elliptical, self-effacing, and subdued, Fabrizio ...

In the Louvre hangs a portrait of a dark-haired, middle-aged man wearing a black coat. The label identifies the figure as the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes. It’s a “copy of a Hals” ...

black and red chalk, over white chalk in the area of the wig; drawn on half a sheet which has been folded and the verso selectively toned with red and black and orange chalk ...

David Ives is that rare being, a man of letters. Playwright, novelist and translator, he produces works ranging from French farce to an investigation of the life and times of a famous Jewish ...

The Smithsonian Institution's Marc Pachter interviews Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, professor, founder of the Great Books Foundation, as part of the education series, Living Self-Portraits, at the ...

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Picasso once brushed aside a criticism that his portrait of Gertrude Stein did not look like her by saying simply: “It will.” In Manhattan, Vienna-trained Painter Rudolf Ray, 63, is trying to go ...

"Draped Male Figure" (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum's website, the headless statue was described as “The Emperor as Philosopher, ...