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Todd Antony Chronicles the ‘Cholitas Escaladoras’ Summiting the Highest Peak...
All images © Todd Antony, shared with permission For generations, Indigenous Bolivian women were not allowed to walk freely in the wealthy or central parts of the nation’s capital, La Paz, where they...
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Tavares Strachan’s ‘There Is Light Somewhere’ Illuminates the Past and...
Installation view of ‘Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere.’ “Ruin of a Giant (King Tubby)” (2024). Photos by Mark Blower. All images © Tavares Strachan, courtesy of the artist and the Hayward...
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The Oldest Example of a Prestigious Red Dye Was Found in a Rare...
A fragment of the rare 3,800-year-old textile, dyed with the Kermes vermilio. Photo by Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority. All images courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority With waxy coverings...
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A 2,000-Year-Old Marble Mosaic Floor Emerges from the Sea in Italy
All images © Submerged Archaeological Park of Baia, shared with permission Around 100 B.C.E., wealthy Romans began building villas in the town of Baia, which sits on the Gulf of Naples. The region was...
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Hidden for Centuries, Rare 17th-Century Miniature Papercuts Have Been...
All photos by James Dobson, courtesy of National Trust, shared with permission For middle and upper-class girls, 17th-century education included lessons in core subjects like reading and writing, along...
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In a Tribute to Ever-Changing Rural America, Brendon Burton Collects a Decade...
All images © Brendon Burton, shared with permission From the wheat fields of the northern Great Plains to misty days in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, Brendon Burton (previously)...
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A Futuristic 150-Foot Installation Imagines Chicago’s Never-Built Architecture
“Welcome to Tribuneville.” Photo © Michael Salisbury. All images courtesy of 150 Media Stream and MAS Context, shared with permission With its long vertical lines and neo-Gothic features, the...
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Across Rural Europe, Ashley Suszczynski Photographs Remarkable and Ancient...
“Startsi,” Voynyagovo Village, Karlovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria. All images © Ashley Suszczynski, shared with permission As a child, Ashley Suszczynski used to draw copiously in her...
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A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees
Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Spanning 3,500 years of art, science,...
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Take a Nostalgic Dive Through a Visual Cassette Tape Archive
All images courtesy of tapedeck As a graphic designer and graffitist who has been making work since 1989, German artist neck, who also goes by Oliver, is a big fan of the “beauty and (sometimes)...
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The Home Studio of the Late Artist L.V. Hull Is Added to the National...
L.V. Hull at her home in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 2002. Photo by Bruce West. All images courtesy of the L.V. Hull Legacy Center, shared with permission Kosciusko is a small town in the center of...
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John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams
On individual strings of monofilament, John Peralta (previously) suspends every single component of historic gadgets, from Rollieflex cameras to Singer sewing machines. The Austin-based artist...
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Step Into Beguiling Bygone Eras in Jeff Bartels’s ‘Urban Glitch’ Series
Around the time he turned 50, Jeff Bartels (previously) found himself thinking more and more about memory and nostalgia. “It occurred to me that I could remember certain things from my past exactly,...
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An Ancient Peruvian Site Reveals a Remarkable Painted Throne Room
Between about 350 and 850 C.E., a society known as the Moche thrived in the coastal valleys of northern Peru. Pañamarca, in the Nepeña Valley, is the southernmost center of the Moche culture and the...
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Snuggle Up with the New ‘Smithsonian Handbook of Interesting Bird Nests and...
The cape penduline tit, found in the sub-tropical shrublands of southern Africa, builds an innovative nest that includes a false chamber to trick predators. And the brown noddy, a tropical seabird,...
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An A.I. Model Helped Uncover 303 Previously Unseen Nazca Lines in Peru
In 2022, we shared news of a monumental discovery at Peru’s Nazca Pampa, a UNESCO World Heritage site once home to pre-Inca Indigenous peoples who were fond of etching gargantuan artworks into the...
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‘The Women Who Changed Photography’ Chronicles 50 Trailblazing Artists
In 1929, sought-after New York fashion model Lee Miller moved to Paris to apprentice with surrealist photographer Man Ray, joining an influential circle of artists. She and Ray worked so closely...
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In ‘Hidden Portraits,’ Volker Hermes Reimagines Historical Figures in...
Engulfed in their own finery, the subjects of Volker Hermes’ portraits epitomize a bygone era. From the Italian High Renaissance to French Rococo, his digital reinterpretations playfully hide the...
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Behold the Messy Creative Process of 50 Celebrated Painters in ‘The Artist’s...
One could argue that every great painting produces two works of art: the canvas and the surface where the pigments are mixed. The Artist’s Palette, forthcoming from Princeton University Press on...
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Pop-Up Letters Set the ‘Alphabet in Motion’ in Kelli Anderson’s New Book
As a communication designer, Kelli Anderson began her career in information design. “The act of data visualization is all about bringing facts from the abstract and numerical realm into the sphere of...
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