Daniel Ison and Lee Minora perform an except from their upcoming show “The Art of Swimming,” at Tiny Dynamite. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) “The Art of Swimming” is a play about Mercedes Gleitze, the first ...

There are lots of ways to find art in the water. The aquatic sports are full of artistic expressions from diving to swimming to artistic swimming. So for Friday FunDay, let’s take a look at some art ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

Swimming has been racialized for 3,000 years, but for most of that time it was Africans who were good swimmers, and Europeans who tried to keep up. Unknown artist, cosmetic spoon in the shape of a ...

A Discussion On Swim Training: Is It An Art or Science? Like the rest of life, the answer to the above question is complicated. Dudley Duncan’s recent The Art of Swimming is just the latest piece of ...

Summer in Southern California means swimming pools, and those glittering havens from the heat are celebrated in the new book “Splash: The Art of the Swimming Pool,” a collaboration between ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When it comes to art, bits and pieces of it can be found wherever we look, even in the most ...

Every art fair has its rituals—and its opportunities for cultural discovery. “There’s no rush like diving into the Rhine at first light—Basel waking up behind you, the current pulling you forward, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a hot day in Hammersmith, all burning tarmac and brittle grass. But in Tarka Kings’ studio, located on a ...

AN ART deco swimming pool, previously named one of the best in the world, is on the site of an old prison and features grand architecture. The Mounts Baths in Northampton were dubbed "world class" by ...

Llanelli Swimming Club has been based at the leisure centre since 1964, but have had to close a number of times to allow for ...