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A 17th-Century Woman Artist's Butterfly Journey
In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America's Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company.
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The Most Fantastic Architecture of the Soviet Union Was Built on Paper
Restricted by the aesthetic limits on architecture in the Soviet Union, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin imagined the most fantastic cities and wondrous structures on paper.
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How the First Illustrated English Book Described the Universe
The first illustrated English book was ambitious, describing large ideas like the roundness of the Earth and why we experience day and night.
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Obsession, Exploded: The Stories of Clarice Lispector
“How do I know?” asks a character standing in for author Clarice Lispector in “Before the Rio–Niterói Bridge,” included in New Directions’ recent release of The Complete Stories. “I know the same way you do by imaginative guessing. I know, period.”
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A Handy Beginner's Guide to Urban Light Projection
The Center for Urban Intervention Research recently released its first printed book, A Manual for Urban Projection, to illustrate the potentials of projection, particularly in urban spaces, whether sanctioned or not.
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The Pre-Columbian Origins of Mexico’s Modernist Architecture
In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico.
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It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, But They Like It: New Books from Robert Christgau and Jessica Hopper
Recently, Time Out New York’s “Word on the Street” column offered this overheard snippet: “She’s never had sex and she doesn’t do drugs but she really loves rock’n’roll.”
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The ABC of Art Criticism: Some Recent How To's
It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway.
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Praise the Lord! The World's Oldest Bible Goes on Display at the British Museum
For only its second time on loan, the earliest known Bible is going on view this October at the British Museum.
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The Books that Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century
Books aimed at women on pitching tents, cooking on campfires, dressing for hikes, and surviving in the wild were published in the United States, as more and more women went out into the woods.
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Illustrated Guides to Camping Like an Early-20th-Century American
The Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine Library in East Harlem has a trove of printed materials connected to camping and outdoor recreation in the early 1900s.
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The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry
Since the outset of his career, Bernar Venet has been an inveterate experimentalist, an intrepid worker in a surprising variety of media. “People know my sculptures, of course,” he says, most likely referring to the monumental steel arcs that have garnered him international renown, “but they don’t k