Stories by prismatic

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

How twentieth-century illustrators reimagined Victorian classics

Mass Support: Dutch architect saw the potential of industrialized building

National Treasure: tea utensils used by early modern practitioners of chanoyu

When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transformer Statues

The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh

19th century painters may have primed their canvases with beer-brewing leftovers

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

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