Stories by prismatic

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

Bruce McCall’s “Safe Travels”

Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food

The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris

The Foul Chartreuse Sea

Information Overload: on the superabundance of research-based art

In Praise of the Long Movie

What Are Toys For?

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Perpetual Provocateur

The eccentric pioneers of vegetable electricity

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

Caravaggio Lost at Sea (2022)

19th-century silhouettes in newly digitized collection

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Juan de Pareja: from Diego Velázquez’s slave to distinguished artist

Martin Frobenius Ledermüller’s Microscopic Delights (1759–63)

Cadillac Ranch

The grotesque side of Leonardo da Vinci

Last Hurrah for Chivalry: Long Live Chivalric Brotherhood

Posed Riddles: Seeing Through Empathy with Diane Arbus

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