Stories by prismatic

The Last Cigarette: Cinema’s most seductive prop

A Design History of Childhood (2013)

‘What the Ermine Saw’ Review: A da Vinci Painting’s Journey

Nil by Page

The Soviet Union’s Desperate Efforts at Mind Control

The Stream of Time (1803–58)

The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“The Rainbow for Their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

What Does This 17th-Century Painting Smell Like?

A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (Ca. 1749)

Silver Screen Sphinxes: Greta Garbo, Buster Keaton, and Celebrity Privacy

Pablo Picasso in Love and War

Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)

What’s behind that enigmatic smile?

Warhol: The Void Beneath the Emptiness

Marcel Duchamp and his friends empowered the American avant-garde

Zone System

Magritte’s Prophetic Surrealism

The Art of the Reading Nook

Ancient frieze in Mexico depicts a “time without time”

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