Books
The Curious Collecting Life of London's Newest Museum Proprietor
Last month, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opened its doors on a clutter of curios in East London.
Allison Meier
News
New Clue Revealed for a Sculpture of Secret Code at CIA Headquarters
A secret message encoded in a sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, got one step closer to being solved last week.
Books
Grappling with a Family Ghost in an Interactive Photography Project
Photographer McNair Evans's faith in his father was rattled when the patriarch died and the secret of the family agricultural business being near insolvency was revealed.
News
30,000 Digitized Documents Retrace the Origin of 'The Origin of Species'
The digitization of Charles Darwin's scientific archive is half completed. When it's finished, the project will allow researchers and anyone who's curious to follow the steps that brought the 19th-century naturalist to formulate his evolutionary theory.
Art
Rebooting the Legacy of a Woman Who Made Video Games for Girls
Theresa Duncan made a series of CD-ROM games in the 1990s aimed at young girls, encouraging imagination and adventure through playfully drawn, dreamlike narratives.
Art
Art That Was Always Meant to Be Hidden
The portraits in Oliver Jeffers' Dipped Paintings series exist as wholes only in the memories of those who witnessed their submersion.
Art
25 Years of Photographing NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites
Photographer Roland Miller has spent 25 years gaining access to abandoned NASA sites across the United States, capturing their history and strange imagery before they disappear.
Books
Illustrating the Invisible Spaces of Migrant Detention
Migrant detention centers are almost as invisible as the people they hold, their plans classified, photography prohibited. Toronto-based artist Tings Chak created a visual narrative through Canada's centers that's a mix of graphic novel and architectural design.
Books
New Monograph Explores Our State of Being Like "Characters in a Disaster Movie"
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe describes our state of being in his new monograph as like "characters in a disaster movie."
Art
19th and 20th–Century Bookplates as Deeply Personal Brands of the Home Library
As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates.
Books
Photographs from an Underground Laser Laboratory
Deep beneath the University of Texas in Austin, the Texas Petawatt Laser can reach a power of 1,000 trillion watts — around 2,000 times that generated by all the country's power plants combined.
Art
Advocating for Glow-in-the-Dark Roads with Vincent van Gogh
A glow-in-the-dark bike route inspired by Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" debuted this week in the Netherlands. It's part of a larger vision to illuminate infrastructure with solar energy captured during the day.