Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll

The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk

Columbia MFA Students Demand Full Tuition Refund

An Early Modernist Master of Light Moves into the Spotlight

How Zarafa, France’s First Giraffe, Became a Cultural Sensation

Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders

What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries

How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen

Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents

An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children’s Books

The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Maps

The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book

The Vibrant Colors and Andean Motifs of a Bolivian Architect’s Buildings

Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers

Photographers of 1870s London Documented Their Disappearing City

How an Imaginary Island Stayed on Maps for Five Centuries

From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics from Tekserve Go to Auction

An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’

The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City

Evidence Mounts That Rembrandt Used Optics to Paint Self-Portraits

The Outsider Artist Who Built His Own Private “Disneyland”

Vik Muniz Painstakingly Reconstructs the Backs of Famous Paintings

Marisol, Innovative Pop Art Sculptor, Dies at 85

Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online

Photography’s Blue Period

Witch Marks, Curses, and Magic in the Neglected History of Medieval Graffiti

An App for Transcribing Medieval Manuscripts

A Soviet Artist’s Lifelong Search for a Universal Artistic Language

Czech Artists’ Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century

14k Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2014)

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