Stories by prismatic

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook

Serial-position effect

A rare look at a Korean portraiture tradition

Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

The Artist Behind the Bowler Hat

Typewriter Art of the Silent Stars (2019)

‘When We Cease to Understand the World’

The Dark Art of Displaying Deep-Sea Fish

The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors

Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ April Fools Album (1897)

Midwestern Exposure: places where early women photographers could build a career

A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of Desire

James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet (2013)

The Myriad Mona Lisas

Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture

How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired surrealists and was twisted by the Nazis

On Diego Rivera

Paint by Numbers: How Roger de Piles tabulated artistic merit

German Ethnologist’s Copies of Art from Prehistoric Times (2016)

Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

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