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One of the Most Ambitious Art Projects in History Is Hidden in an Extinct Volcano

Some projects are built to last centuries. At Roden Crater, James Turrell has spent over fifty years transforming an extinct…

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A vast complex of monolithic churches carved from living rock in medieval Ethiopia, Lalibela was conceived as a “New Jerusalem”…

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Almost invisible from the surface of a 17th-century imperial temple complex, Kyoto’s Glass Temple hides a stark white chamber beneath…

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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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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…