Art
A VR Experience that Generates Waking Dreams
Dream by experimental musician Philippe Lambert immerses viewers in the strange disorientation of slumber.
Allison Meier
Books
Photographs from the Wildest Places on Earth
Peter and Beverly Pickford traveled to all seven continents for the stunning photographs in Wild Land: A Journey into the Earth's Last Wilds.
Art
Material Messages Between Earth and the Divine
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York examines 4,000 years of votive offerings.
Books
Many Stories Are Told Through the Typography in Science Fiction Films
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner, Typeset in the Future examines the typography and design that filmmakers have used to lend a believability to visions of the future.
Books
With His Camera, Lewis W. Hine Changed How We See American Labor
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work, a new book from Taschen, chronicles Lewis W. Hine's early 20th-century career photographing the problems and triumphs of labor.
Art
Drawings of Fantastical Flora Adapted from Advertising
Artist Anne Percoco has created an herbarium of imaginary plants collected from advertising, food packaging, and other objects of human design.
Art
New York City and Its Connections to the Moon
Heidi Neilson's "Moon Arrow" travels around the New York City shorelines to draw attention to celestial forces acting on the urban landscape.
Art
Birds Can Now Nest in a Living Sculpture in Brooklyn
Anina Gerchick's "Birdlink" is a year-round sculpture of native plants that serves as a habitat for New York City's local and migrating birds.
Art
Artist's Signs Guide Pedestrians to a Hidden River in Queens
Artist Cody Ann Herrmann's How do you get to Flushing Creek? project involves wayfinding signs and free maps to guide New Yorkers to one of its most overlooked waterways.
Books
An Incredible 19th-Century Hair Collection That Nearly Became Trash
In the mid-1800s, naturalist Peter A. Browne assembled the world’s greatest hair collection to explain the complexity of humanity. In the 1970s, it was saved from the trash by a museum curator.
Books
The Colorful Cocoons of Hong Kong's Bamboo Scaffolding
Photographer Peter Steinhauer spent two decades photographing the traditional bamboo scaffolding that endures in Hong Kong.
Art
The Tenement Museum Maps a Century of Deadly Diseases and Their Human Stories
In a new tour, the Tenement Museum explores New York's contagious history, from tuberculosis to the AIDS crisis, through three families.