Stories by prismatic

Is this painting a Raphael or not?

The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago

Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909)

Mirror Fever: The history of mirror halls in France and China

Reality Check

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: a genius cursed by fate?

What does it mean to trademark a color?

Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta

The Gaucho Western

In Search of Lost Art: Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau (2012)

The Renaissance lets its hair down

The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (Ca. 1924)

Marcel Duchamp painted this explosive nude masterpiece. Then he quit

When the CIA spied on American citizens using pigeons

The Osage orange, Texas’s ugliest fruit (2021)

The literary life of Pessoa’s alter ego (2020)

The Artist’s Studio by James Hall review – lust, crime and creativity

Spooky Enough: Japanese yōkai figures

How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI into the Mythical “G-Men”

Armless Fun? On the Venus de Milo

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