Art
Sum of the Arts
Self-portraits Rembrandt painted, sketched, or etched in his lifetime = 80
Allison Meier
Art
A Historic House Opens Its Doors to the Words of Edgar Allan Poe
BALTIMORE — An immersive theater experience based on the brooding writing of Edgar Allan Poe is reopening a historic Baltimore house that has been closed for a decade.
News
The Library of Congress Is Uploading 75 Years of Poetry and Literature Recordings
Yesterday selections from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress became available to stream online for the first time.
Art
Human Nests and Other Highlights of African Design
Designer Porky Hefer's organic capsules are part of Grains of Paradise: Contemporary African Design in collaboration with Southern Guild, a group exhibition at a gallery specializing in contemporary design.
Books
Photographs Document the Global Traditions of Living with the Dead
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us, a photography book by Paul Koudounaris out this month from Thames & Hudson, is a visual narrative of how a more visceral relationship to the dead thrives across the globe.
Opinion
How Viral History Accounts Are Hurting the Past They Purport to Celebrate
Although it only started in March, the Twitter account @MedievalReacts has soared to over 270,000 followers — all because it takes images without attribution from libraries and other sources and pairs them with punchy, modern text.
Art
Is Now the Bluest Time in Art?
Interpreting the data of 94,526 paintings created between 1800 CE and 2000 CE, Martin Bellander, a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, discovered that blue has increased in art while orange has become less common.
Art
Recording the Insect Ecology of a Prison Reclaimed by Nature
Cell 25 in Block 9 of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary is now a cabinet of curiosities representing the animal life of this stabilized ruin.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Years a message in a bottle was floating in the Baltic Sea until its discovery by a fisherman = 101
Art
Hudson River School Painters' Homes Make Way for Contemporary Art
Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the "physical cornerstone of American art," as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it.
News
One of Ancient Egypt's Most Celebrated Paintings May Be a 19th-Century Fake
According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo's most prized ancient paintings could be a 19th-century archeological forgery.
Art
New LA Parking Signs Are Good Design
Last week, the first of 100 signs that are part of an initiative to rethink parking was installed in Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti.