Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1930) is the most celebrated painter from 19th century Russia, and from the works below you can see how he rightfully attained such a standing. I heartily recommend clicking to enlarge the images,...
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Of all the mythical medieval beasts that rollocked around in the Dark Ages, the bonnacon (or bonasus and bonacon) has to be the most ridiculous. Legend has it that the bonnacon’s curly horns were no...
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These Japanese posters, mostly produced in the 60s and 70s, look so current and on-point that I was quite taken aback when I found them. I shouldn’t have been astounded though, art and culture is cyclical, as...
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Laurie Lipton, a New York born arts and crafts wizard, creates impressively detailed and darkly humorous images. She’s lived in a number of countries including England, France and Germany but now resides in West Hollywood....
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I don’t know if I’m late to the party here, has anyone else seen fat manga characters before? I stumbled across an artist on Deviant Art the other day called Trinity-Fate and I...
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The skull chapel in Czerman, Poland is a grizzly reminder of human loss. It was built in 1776 by the Czech local parish priest Wacław Tomaszek to commemorate people who died during the Thirty...
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The Kamchatka Peninsula is situated in the Russian Far East and runs for about 800 miles. It covers around 100,000 square miles and lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the...
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The following photos are taken from an exhibition of rare photographs of black people in Victorian England. The series is titled Black Chronicles II. It showcases photographs of some of the first black people to live in...
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When people say that something is jaw-dropping, it rarely is. But when I saw pictures of the White Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand I genuinely did stare with my jaw agape. The temple was...
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