A photo by Robert Doisneau of cellist Maurice Baquet performing on a mountaintop in Chamonix, France, was the inspiration for the Geode, the newest outdoor performance space at Tippet Rise, the visual ...

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz which has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in northern Uruguay. Geodes are hollow rock formations often with quartz ...

Amethyst geodes—some stretching 5 m long—dot the ancient lava flows of Uruguay’s Los Catalanes mining area. The geodes contain calcite, colorless quartz, and agate, another quartz mineral. Large ...

Music is the pulse of the universe, and we are part of its song. Nowhere does this ring truer than at Tippet Rise Art Center, the 12,500-acre ethereal art and music complex with hiking and biking ...

Göttingen University researcher Fiorella Arduin Rode working in open pit mine of the study area, Los Catalanes mining district, northern Uruguay. Along with Ametista do Sul in southern Brazil, these ...