Connecting the Heavens and Earth Through Art

Aug 15, 2025

HAMBURG, Germany — In the 1920s, Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg assembled his famed Mnemosyne Atlas — a vast, unfinished compendium of uncaptioned images on 40 categorized panels. Around the same time, he put together his Image Collection on the History of...

Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art

Jul 16, 2025

HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape Cod, intending to cross the Atlantic in a 12.6-foot vessel called Ocean Wave and then mount an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in his native Netherlands. The journey was,...