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.
Maps
News
A New Digital Map Charts Queens’s Arts and Culture Landscape
The platform spotlights dozens of studios, galleries, museums, and other cultural spaces in an effort to foster cross-borough connections.
News
Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map
The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.
Art
Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.
News
Over 650 US Sites Renamed to Remove Anti-Indigenous Slurs
In recent years, local activists have pushed to change the names of federal sites featuring the dehumanizing “s-word.”
News
See What Your Neighborhood Looked Like Millions of Years Ago
A new online tool allows users to scroll through geologic time, using their own location as a pinpoint to orient themselves in the shifting land masses.
Art
How the Face of Rio de Janeiro Radically Changed Over Five Centuries
A new digital atlas, imagineRio, reveals how the city’s urban evolution has unfolded from its 16th century roots to the present day.
News
Scientists Create the First Complete Map of the World's Coral Reefs
The project utilized 2.25 million satellite images of shallow coral reefs around the globe.
Art
How a Map Fueled Perceptions of Asians as an Exoticized “Other”
“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.
Books
New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
Part botanical history, part social history, Allison C. Meier’s map provides a welcome alternative route through New York’s urban jungle.
Art
Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor
The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.
Art
The Art World We Have Lost
Loren Munk’s “SOHO Map” offers a visual record of a densely peopled art world.