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The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
1 day ago
Excerpts from a dazzling image collection, discovered in a Norwegian barn in...
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
8 days ago
In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale...
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
8 days ago
The sole example of a Bauhaus workshop’s arcane theatrical scoring system, combining...
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
8 days ago
Eleventh instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword...
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
14 days ago
The first comprehensive history of marionette artistry in the English language.
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
15 days ago
Depictions of the mythical creatures known as Blemmyes: humanoids whose eyes, nose...
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
21 days ago
In 1840, British architect George Wightwick published a world history of architecture...
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
21 days ago
Tenth instalment in our series of extremely small and free-form cryptic crossword...
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
21 days ago
A set of drawing workbooks embroiled in debates about the Indigenist aesthetic...
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
23 days ago
A series of conjectures about the primal scene of writing.
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
29 days ago
A stunning six-foot-long map that joins the worlds of various myths and...
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
about 1 month ago
As the story goes, Old Tom Parr was relatively healthy for being...