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Norwegians will soon have a wonderful reason to renew their passports. Just weeks after Norway's central bank revealed its new, abstract currency, the National Police Directorate (NPD) announced that Neue Design Studio has won a competition to reimagine the country's travel documents and identity ca
Interview
For the past six years, photographer Michelle Frankfurter has been riding the rails with a Bronica camera and photographing the migrants traveling to the US-Mexico border from Central America.
News
It seems self-evident that architecture impacts our emotions.
In Brief
Throughout his life, Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak made no distinction between writing for adults and writing for children. Now the courts will have their say.
News
Leaking roofs. Bad plumbing. Through-the-roof electricity bills. We've all experienced them, and the 168-year-old Smithsonian Institution is no different. This week, it announced a $2 billion dollar plan to bring its museums and gardens into the 21st century.
News
The German art collective known as the Center for Political Beauty (CPB) doesn't mess around.
Art
In 2011, photographer Sarker Protick’s grandfather John developed cancer.
In Brief
Spanish culture minister José Ignacio Wert just might be Spain's most unpopular man.
News
The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just can’t see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architect's Journal reported.
News
A new report in the newspaper Hurriyet has revealed that museum staff participated in a $250 million art heist of 302 works in their own institution between 2005 and 2009.
Art
Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict.
In Brief
Peru's culture ministry has announced a new subterranean mapping initiative that will allow archaeologists to explore pre-Columbian Cusco without picking up any shovels.