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. 

Military Avrocar Concept
During World War II, Nazi engineers allegedly tried to create UFO-shaped military aircraft.
hans holbein
The German artist painted death as it appeared in life – omnipresent and hidden in plain sight.
stone camels
The stone camel sculptures, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.
Soviet nostalgia
As Russia’s youth welcomed a new era of capitalism in the 1990s, their parents and grandparents clung to fleeting memories of Soviet life.
human migration
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Cave art
In the perilous mountains of Tibet, archaeologists unearthed ancient hand and footprints that seem to be the creative work of children.