This 18th-century status symbol turned the simple act of taking tobacco into a display of taste, performance, and theatre.

This video takes you on an immersive journey through the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the world's first university museum and a treasure trove for any ancient history lover. The highlights feature an ...

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In this Surrealism-themed episode, Ben Luke discusses the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp in half a century, Alyce ...

Yann Martel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi, typically explores competing storylines, narrative reliability ...

O NCE THERE WAS a clay pot and it fell and broke. Once there was a man and he too fell.

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Soma Surovi Jannat has become the first Bangladesh-based artist to stage a solo exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum—the UK's oldest public museum and the University of Oxford's pre-eminent centre for ...

A Korean doctoral dissertation that turns reading into a physical journey — inviting viewers to walk along a 10-meter (32.8-foot) scroll — has been acquired for permanent display by the Ashmolean ...

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...

Early this month, Professor Sheila Bainker of Oxford University examines Professor Lee Jin-jun of KAIST's doctoral dissertation at the storage of the UK's Ashmolean Museum. Professor Lee completes his ...

Professor Shelagh Vainker of Oxford University, curator of Chinese and Korean art at the Ashmolean Museum, examining the thesis in the museum's storage. Courtesy of KAIST A doctoral thesis written on ...