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Like many famous artworks from the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1485) has a larger-than-life quality. The painting, which depicts the Roman goddess of beauty emerging from a shell accompanied by other deities, has been described as an allegory of love and rebirth, its central figure transcending the offensive, sensual nudity of […]

The Dia Art Foundation has announced a major landscaping project focused primarily on restoring three acres of lawn at its location in Beacon back to its native meadowlands and bolstering defenses from rising floodwaters from the Hudson River, caused by climate change. Studio Zewde, the landscape architecture and urban design firm led by Sara Zewde, […]

Nearly 20,000 Shona citizens once animated the 1,800-acre ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa has many zimbabwes, or stone villages, but this one is by far the most legendary. All that remains from the medieval capital is its awe-inspiring, stony skeleton. But, long after the Kingdom of Zimbabwe’s demise in the 15th century, Great Zimbabwe’s […]