Art
Exploring Beech Trees and Buried Painters in a Cemetery Attic
For Among Trees and Stones, artist Matthew Jensen explored Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, installing an archive of its history in the gatehouse.
Allison Meier
Art
Skull Cup Associated with Lord Byron Heads to Auction
A cup made from a human skull has an inscription that attributes it to Lord Byron, who was known to drink wine from such a vessel.
News
US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World
The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.
Art
Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
Art
An App that Visualizes the Digital Hotspots and Voids Around You
The White Spots app visualizes the invisible digital networks around us, and maps your escape to a "white spot," where there is no reception or internet.
Books
From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
Art
Become an Art Detective and Unravel the Mysteries of the UK's Public Collections
Art Detective is an initiative from Art UK that involves specialists and the public in solving mysteries about the public collections paintings in the UK.
Art
Photographs Revisit the Places Terminally Ill Patients Chose to See Before They Died
"Once visited by these terminal patients, these places aren’t just places anymore, they turn into monuments," artist Hrair Sarkissian said of his Last Scene project.
History
Digitized Photos by Julia Margaret Cameron, 19th-Century Pioneer of the Soft Focus
Bodleian Libraries digitized over 100 photographs by 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, who brought a dreamy softness to her images.
Books
A Photographer's Infrared Journey to the Island of the Colorblind
Photographer Sanne de Wilde's The Island of the Colorblind investigates a Pacific atoll where an unusually high percentage of the population has total color blindness.
Music
An Organ Gets a Noble Send-Off as a 1928 Brooklyn Theater Is Being Restored
Before the Brooklyn Paramount undergoes a two-year restoration into a performance space, a concert showed off its 1920s Wurlitzer organ.
Books
A Graphic Designer's Love Letter to the Endangered Signage of Barcelona
Graphic designer Louise Fili photographed the distinctive signage of Barcelona, as a design inspiration, and argument for preservation.