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February 25, 2016
The Tessellated and Elaborately Detailed Ceilings of Iranian Mosques
February 16, 2016
Why Dozens of U.S. President Statues Sit Deteriorating in a Rural Virginia Field
February 9, 2016
The Art Institute of Chicago Recreates Van Gogh’s Famous Bedroom to be Rented on Airbnb
February 9, 2016
Extraordinary Interactive Hi-Res Exhibit of Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’
January 8, 2016
Harvard’s Colorful Library Filled With 2,500 Pigments Collected from Around the World
January 8, 2016
A VW Beetle Spotted in the Insect Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
December 9, 2015
Newly Restored Photos of Shackleton’s Fateful Antarctic Voyage Offer Unprecedented Details of Survival
November 25, 2015
Art Meets Cartography: The 15,000-Year History of a River in Oregon Rendered in Data
November 11, 2015
The Attention-Sucking Power of Digital Technology Displayed Through Photography by Antoine Geiger
November 9, 2015
More Figures from Classical Paintings Imagined as Part of Modern-Day Life in Kiev by Alexey Kondakov
October 29, 2015
Landscapes Painted on the Surfaces of Cut Logs by Alison Moritsugu
October 20, 2015
A Drought in Mexico Uncovers a 400-Year-Old Colonial Church in the Middle of a Reservoir
October 13, 2015
Artist Theaster Gates Bought a Crumbling Chicago Bank for $1 and Turned it Into a World-Class Arts Center
October 12, 2015
A French Museum Dedicated to Over 100 Hyperrealistic Miniature Film Sets
October 6, 2015
NASA Releases Trove of Over 8,000 HD Photos from the Apollo Moon Missions
October 1, 2015
From 1975-1980 Activist Adam Purple Built a Circular Urban Garden in New York that ‘Knocked Down’ the Surrounding Buildings
September 18, 2015
100-Year-Old Footage of Legendary Artists Monet, Renoir, Rodin, and Degas Working and Walking Near Their Studios
August 31, 2015
Journalist Spends Four Years Traversing India to Document Crumbling Subterranean Stepwells Before they Disappear
August 24, 2015
A Visit Inside One of the Only Hand-crafted Globe Studios in the World
August 14, 2015
Artist Jane Long Digitally Manipulates Black and White WWI-Era Photos Into Colorful Works of Fantasy
August 11, 2015
The World’s Oldest Multicolored Printed Book Has Been Opened and Digitized for the First Time
July 30, 2015
A 17th-Century Stanchi Painting Reveals the Rapid Change in Watermelons through Selective Breeding [Updated]
July 15, 2015
Archaeologists Unearth Trove of 2,000 Mysterious Gold Spirals in Denmark
June 30, 2015
The Meticulous 10-Month Restoration of a 355-Year-Old Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 8, 2015
An Oklahoma School Discovers 100-Year-Old Chalkboard Drawings Hidden in the Walls
May 19, 2015
Artist Alexey Kondakov Imagines Figures from Classical Paintings as Part of Contemporary Life
May 15, 2015
Photographic Portraits of Famous Artist’s Paint Palettes by Matthias Schaller
April 28, 2015
Dreamlike Autochrome Portraits of an Engineer’s Daughter From 1913 Are Among the Earliest Color Photos
April 21, 2015
Book Conservator Nobuo Okano Repairs Tattered Books to Make Them Look Brand New
April 8, 2015
Intimate Portraits of 50 Artists and Their Cats Compiled by Alison Nastasi
March 17, 2015
Photographers Create Meticulously Faithful Dioramas of Iconic Photos
February 21, 2015
CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside
January 6, 2015
The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People
December 30, 2014
Bone Music: How Banned Western Music in the Soviet Union Was Printed on Repurposed X-Ray Records
November 7, 2014
The Ingenuity and Beauty of Creative Parchment Repair in Medieval Books
November 4, 2014
An Illustrated Cross Section of Hong Kong’s Infamous Kowloon Walled City
October 2, 2014
Medieval Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Discovers and Catalogs 800-Year-Old Doodles in Some of the World’s Oldest Books
September 2, 2014
A 19th Century Telephone Network Covered Stockholm in Thousands of Phone Lines
August 21, 2014
By the Silent Line: Photographer Pierre Folk Spent Years Documenting a Vanishing 160-Year-Old Parisian Railway
July 21, 2014
An Amazing Collection of Mechanical Singing Bird Automata Filmed by Douglas Fisher
July 1, 2014
The Putter: A Meditative Video on the Art of Making Scissors by Hand
May 23, 2014
Eerie Photos of North Brother Island, the Last Unknown Place in New York City
May 22, 2014
Beautiful Fordite Stones Created from Layers of Automotive Paint are a By-Product of Old Car Factories
May 20, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online for Non-Commercial Use
May 5, 2014
271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book
April 14, 2014
Artist Rachel Sussman Photographs the Oldest Living Things in the World before They Vanish
February 10, 2014
900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved, It Says “Kiss Me” [Updated]
January 24, 2014
This 16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways
January 13, 2014
London in 1927 & 2013: A Shot-By-Shot Video Comparison of London, 86 Years Apart
November 18, 2013
Polish Concert Pianist Builds a ‘Viola Organista’ Based on a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketch
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