The Eduard von der Heydt
Eduard von der Heydt was a German and Swiss banker, art collector and patron. He was also the former owner of the Monte Verità, a well-known site of many different uopian and cultural events and communities.
The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The city of Haarlem in The Netherlands has set a prize of 100,000 guilders to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded, but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and at last his rescuer.
Venetia Scott
Venetia Scott began her career at British Vogue, and went on to style shoots for numerous magazines including i-D, The Face, Italian Vogue, Self Service, Another Magazine and W.
Khan As’ad Pasha
Khan As'ad Pasha is the largest khan in the Old City of Damascus, covering an area of 2,500 square metres.
Yungas Road
Yungas Road, Bolivia, is one of the world's most dangerous roads. In 2006, one estimate stated that 200 to 300 travellers were killed yearly along the road. The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have fallen.
Charles Ray’s Ink Line
Ink Line is a sculpture consisting of a stream of jet-black ink pouring from a dime-size hole in the ceiling into a dime-size hole in the floor. Initially, Ink Line looks like a strand of yarn strung the height of the gallery. Get close and you’ll realize the line is liquid, glimmering, the consistency of syrup, moving fairly fast, fluctuating slightly, and thinner at the bottom than at the top. The ink forms a weird climatological aura around itself, slightly changing the humidity of the room.
Minotaure
Minotaure, published between 1933 and 1939, was a Surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira in Paris. The editors were André Breton and Pierre Mabille. It was a luxurious publication, sporting original artworks on its cover by prestigious artists like Pablo Picasso. The magazine was sponsored and advised by Surrealist art patron Edward James, and is still one of the richest sources of information about the pre-war Surrealist world.
Black sun
During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above.
Surtsey
Surtsey is a volcanic island off the southern coast of Iceland. It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 metres below sea level, and reached the surface on 14 November 1963.
Girlfriends
In Girlfriends, first-time writer-director Claudia Weill created a compelling depiction of a woman look at a woman growing, awkwardly and not without pain, into her adult life - that is, the life of an independent woman and artist in New York City. This film also offers what is inarguably one of cinema's most honest and insightful looks at the complex bonds between women, detailing with extraordinary sensitivity (and bits of quirky humor) the shifts, both small and seismic, that occur when one of the halves of a sustaining heterosexual female friendship effectively leaves to get married.