Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial assistant for Film Comment magazine, and has written for Esquire, Film & History, History Today, and History News Network. 

Foundation apple tv
The "Foundation" series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.
Metalic Corrosion
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Yukio Mishima photograph
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
Tatlin's Tower on a Soviet stamp
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
Michelangelo's David
Although the statue’s political connotations faded over time, its eyes remain fixed on a key moment in Florentine history.