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What do Beatlemania, K-pop stans, and Swifties have in common? A shared lineage with Lisztomania, a 19th century precursor to fan culture.
A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...
(CNN) - A rare 19th-century condom is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. The Dutch National Museum in Amsterdam said it’s believed the condom was made from a sheep’s appendix.
In November last year, two print curators from the Rijksmuseum were perusing the showrooms of an auction house in Haarlem, northwest Netherlands, when something unexpected caught their eye: a 19th ...
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
On balance, globalization has enhanced American power, and Trump’s assault on it only enfeebles the United States. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British economist and statesman David ...
It is neither a painting nor a sculpture. It's a 19th-century condom, made from a sheep's appendix and printed with an erotic image of a nun and three aroused clergymen, now on public display for ...
Skeletal remains found along the Jersey shore have now been linked to the 19th-century shipwreck of the Oriental. In 1995, a human skull washed ashore in Longport, and more bones were found in ...
Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features more than 250 photographs that capture “the complexities of a nation in ...
Following Spain’s arrival to the Americas, the kingdom began minting copper Maravedis in the early 1500s specifically for ...