Art and Architecture, mainly

Australia’s favourite and most significant art award opened in Shepparton Art Museum  for a Victorian showing of the annual Archibald Prize ...

The HandleBar Adelaide uses vehicles devised by brothers Henk and Zwier Van Laar in Amsterdam in the 1990s. The four-wheel, open frame vehi...

The C17th  fur trade became a major commercial growth in Nth Am­erica , due to Eur­ope’s dem­and for beaver hats. Two French trad­ers pl­a...

The original house, now called The Cedars in Hahndorf , was built in the late 1870s by Alfred Wheelwright, then he sold the property to a N...

The female scholar behind Iraq's independence The Librarians Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was the grand­daughter of British nobility and t...