Spaces Archives - Ex-Plain

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Ancient Roman Brutalism? This Tomb Defies Classical Expectations

Two thousand years before concrete brutalism, this ancient Roman tomb built to honor a former slave appears staggeringly modern, but…

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New York–based artist Clement Valla has been steadily collecting images of the Earth, but not the Earth as we know…

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We're doing a new regular feature where we collect all of the strange and wonderful things we find thanks to…

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To the left of the main entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City stands a controversial bronze door that…

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Art collector Désiré Feuerle has spent a lifetime dissolving the boundaries between ancient and contemporary Asian art. Having transformed an…

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In his striking series Landscapes Within, Belgian photographer and urban explorer Reginald Van de Velde turns his lens toward a…