Art
NYU's Grey Art Gallery is exhibiting 80 drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the "father of modern neuroscience" who used art to reveal the anatomy of the brain.
Art
Preserving East New York was founded by Zulmilena Then to advocate for historic preservation in one of New York City's most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Art
Very Very Short is a series from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and ARTE of 10 web-based interactive projects.
Books
SOS Brutalism is the first global survey of Brutalist architecture from the 1950s to '70s, and is a rallying cry for preserving these concrete structures.
Art
The world's first climate change museum opens its inaugural exhibition, exploring polar ice through art at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
Books
In 2010, photographer Chuck Hemard began documenting what remains of the longleaf pinelands in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States.
Books
A new book chronicles how artist Laura Anderson Barbata led the repatriation and burial of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman exhibited in life and death for her excessive hair.
Art
The City Reliquary in Brooklyn is exploring centuries of trash in New York City, and the artists and groups who have responded to it.
Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art is exhibiting the watercolor works of Bror Anders Wikstrom, who designed floats and costumes for turn-of-the-century Mardi Gras.
Art
The Fiji Mermaid was an object of fantasy but for a long time it was on display as a specimen that many people believed was real.
Art
Hemlock Hospice is an interpretive trail of sculptures in the Harvard Forest which draws attention to the vanishing eastern hemlock tree.
Books
In the 1950s, architect Jeffrey Lindsay led a little-known era of geodesic dome design in Québec, which is explored in the new book Montréal's Geodesic Dreams.