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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?

The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them

The Stealthy Politics of Urban Advertising

Impressions of Colors: On William Blake’s Monoprints

Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale

Impressions of Colors: On William Blake’s Monoprints

Sun Glint, Bane of Scientists, Has a Silver Lining

Bringing Up Baby: Bones, Balls, and Butterflies

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