In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a...

A deep dive into the creative mind of University of South Carolina student fashion designer, Kaitlyn...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the ...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...