Art
Pompeii Before the Point-and-Shoot: The Earliest Photographs of Italy
The first photographic images seen in Italy were botanical prints by Henry Fox Talbot, beginning three decades of experimentation with photography in 19th-century Italy.
Allison Meier
Art
A Center for Women’s History Opens in New York, with a Spotlight on Dolley Madison
The New-York Historical Society's new center is making its debut with an exhibition about the overlooked political contributions of the former First Lady.
Art
Overlooked 19th-Century Landscape Photos from East of the Mississippi
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art highlights the environmental and artistic influence of 19th-century landscape photography in the eastern United States.
Art
Tour New York’s Gilded Age Architecture with a New Museum App
“A Walk Through Gilded NY” is an audio and visual tour through the past and present of the city’s turn-of-the-century architecture.
Art
Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes
After the loss of her father and a close friend, Heide Hatry began making portraits where her subjects' faces are delicately recreated with their own cremated remains.
Art
Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts
In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.
Books
A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
Art
An Anthropological Look at Weapons of War as Objects of Art
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.
Art
A Plague of Digital Rats for Your Desktop
"DESCENT" is a downloadable, digital artwork that's inspired by both Bruegel and the Black Death.
Books
The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture
Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.
Books
The Dynamic Brain Drawings of the Father of Modern Neuroscience
A publication from Abrams Books and a traveling exhibit currently at the Weisman Art Museum highlight the medical illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Performance
An Episode of Immersive Theater Unravels for an Audience of Five
Here is a new series of immersive theater experiences in New York that will link an evolving web of characters and storylines propelled by loss.