Art
The Smallest Mollusk Museum Brings Science Education to Unexpected Places
The Smallest Mollusk Museum is the first project from MICRO, a New York-based nonprofit building six-foot-tall museums to share science education in public places.
Allison Meier
Books
The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and '30s
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
Books
How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Film
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
Art
Happy Public Domain Day! Works by Magritte and 9 Other Artists Are Now Copyright-Free
Happy Public Domain Day 2018! Here are 10 artists whose work is leaving copyright (although not in the United States).
Art
Happy Public Domain Day! Works by Magritte and 9 Other Artists Are Now Copyright-Free
Happy Public Domain Day 2018! Here are 10 artists whose work is leaving copyright (although not in the United States).
Books
The Calling Cards of the 1970s and '80s British CB Radio Subculture
Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture compiles hundreds of calling cards from the renegade 1970s and '80s Citizens Band (CB) radio scene.
Books
An 18th-Century Compendium of Magic Revels in the Dark Arts
Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts.
Books
A Photographer Documents How Spirit Mediums in Myanmar and Thailand Blur Gender
Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Thailand and Burma features photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen of the gender variance of participants in spirit cults.
Books
How the Animal Menagerie of Versailles Changed 17th-Century Art
1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV's menagerie at Versailles on the art of animals.
Books
Photographs of Men Who Believe They Are Christ's Second Coming
For The Last Testament, Jonas Bendiksen photographed seven men from around the world who each believe they are the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Art
An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum is digitizing the New York Quilt Project, an archive of over 6,000 quilts and their histories.