Art Review
Take a Trip Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Conjured Worlds
The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.
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Activists Create Life-Sized Cyanotype in Trans Solidarity Action
Artist Cassils led “Etched in Light,” a participatory visual art and sonic performance in Washington, DC this weekend.
Books
Photographs of the Birds and Bones in US National Park Collections
When a wayward tufted titmouse slammed against photographer Leah Sobsey's window, the bird's tiny corpse suddenly recalled all the natural specimens that had captivated her as a child at Chicago's Field Museum.
Art
The First Woman Photographer Captured the Elegance of Algae
Algae is graceful and light in the ocean, swaying with the waves like hair in the wind.
Art
Photography's Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes.