The exhibition Small is Beautiful, featuring over 100 tiny art pieces, is now on view in New York.
Miniatures
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Painting that Exhilarates the Eye and Mind
It can be tempting to compare these historical Indian paintings with familiar examples from the Euro-American canon but that would do a disservice to these artworks, which are revelatory on their own.
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Tiny Tomes from the World’s First All-Miniature Bookstore
Tokyo’s Lilliput Oval Saloon closed last year and now part its inventory of miniature books, bookshelves, and lecterns is headed to auction.
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Inside Marwencol, the Art Project That Helped an Amnesiac Recover from Assault
In April 2000, after drunkenly confessing his love of cross-dressing in a bar, Mark Hogancamp was brutally beaten and left for dead by five bigots in his hometown of Kingston, New York.
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In an Exhibition of Miniatures, the Good, the Bad, and the Lego
From 18th-century dollhouses and contemporary architectural maquettes to ancient Egyptian reliquary artifacts, taking pleasure from peering down on diminutive worlds seems to be a universal human delight.
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Historic Photographs Recreated in Miniature
Since photography was first invented nearly 200 years ago, humans have gained an unprecedented visual understanding of their past.
