The Apollo 11 spacecraft conquer the Moon exactly 53 years ago:You knew how the moon smelled , or how activists reacting to the launch ended up sitting in VIP seats ? The diary read, like today , July 20, 1969 :It was a small day of the year for man, but a long one for mankind... Something like th
Ether, morphine, wine mixed with cocaine ... Psychotropic substances enjoyed great popularity at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists excelled in their use, claiming that they broaden the perception and support the imagination. But this does not mean that ordinary bread eaters did not re
In her youth she was hailed the most beautiful woman in Europe. She started with an Istanbul harem and ended as the wife of one of the richest people in Poland. Her fascinating life ended with an extraordinary journey. A journey in which a womans body ... became a puppet, pretending to be a living p
It was the mid 1930s. Art was dominated by abstraction and surrealism. A young French painter of Polish origin then proposed something that caused shock and scandal even in the unbridled milieu of Parisian artists. It wasnt how he painted, but who. Balthus was born Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola t