An ambitious new sculptural installation specially created for a Paris exhibition. Based in Seoul, Lee Bul is a leading figure within a new generation of contemporary Korean artists. Her practice embr
Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth''s fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. This book provides a map of those bill
A trip to the discovery of jewelery manufacturing. Founded in Paris in 1896, Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps the most renowned maison of fine jewelery in the world. The book reveals for the first t
The theory of evolution that Charles Darwin put forth in the nineteenth century has been broadly confirmed and enriched by the discovery of genes and by advances in the life sciences, from paleontolo