There have been arcane, ancient sculptures, canvases by little-known artists and bizarre objects like glass cabinets filled with medical supplies or cigarette butts.
With one hundred photographs, including objects from little-known collections, alongside case studies and a carefully chosen bibliography, this book gives valuable insight for anyone working to preserve valuable resources.
That, too, produced its share of pain, particularly among a small group of East Germans who used a little-known law permitting them to object to military service and were sent here as "construction soldiers" — in essence, conscientious objectors carrying shovels instead of Kalashnikov rifles.
(Martha Schwendener) ★ Frick Collection: 'Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court' (through Aug. 19) The first exhibition devoted to the transcendent gemstone-covered objects of this little-known 18th-century German goldsmith is a ravishing event and the sleeper of the summer's museum fare.
(Rosenberg) ★ Frick Collection: 'Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court' (closes on Sunday) The first exhibition devoted to the transcendent gemstone-covered objects of this little-known 18th-century German goldsmith is a ravishing event and the sleeper of the summer's museum fare.
(Ken Johnson) ★ Frick Collection: 'Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court' (through Aug. 19) The first exhibition devoted to the transcendent gemstone-covered objects of this little-known 18th-century German goldsmith is a ravishing event and the sleeper of the summer's museum fare.
(Johnson) ★ Frick Collection: 'Gold, Jasper and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court' (through Aug. 19) The first exhibition devoted to the transcendent gemstone-covered objects of this little-known 18th-century German goldsmith is a ravishing event and the sleeper of the summer's museum fare.
Recent and forthcoming essays treat topics ranging from the material production of the sacred in the Middle Ages, to the crafting of Middle English lyrics in the form of objects, to the little-known medieval origins of the modern waffle.
Scientists believe they are frozen relics from the dawn of the solar system, and could teach us more about our origins and the diversity of objects in this little-known region.
"Joseph Cornell's Manual of Marvels" is a new boxed-set based on a little-known work by the artist, "Untitled Book Object: Journal d'Agriculture Pratique et Journal de l'Agriculture".
According to RGS librarian Hugh Robert Mill, as early as March 1920 Shackleton had talked about two possible schemes the Beaufort Sea exploration and "an oceanographical expedition with the object of visiting all the little-known islands of the South Atlantic and South Pacific".
