Stories by prismatic

More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices

The Forest That Blooms Brilliantly for Just a Few Days a Year

An Artist’s Mission to Illustrate All the World’s Mythical Beasts

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

Sex on the canvas: Picasso’s most erotic year laid bare

Maria Prymachenko’s fantastic world of flowers and animals

Cinematic Airs (2017)

On the Road: The Language of Street Markings

Cavalier collector: how Charles I gained and lost some of the world’s best art

Coetzee’s Boyhood Photographs

Getting High with Benjamin and Burroughs (2008)

Humph, He, Ha: In Degas’s opinion, ‘literature has only done harm to art’

The mystery behind who took the first full-color shot of Earth from Apollo 17

Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia

Chladni Figures (1787)

A 19th-Century Illustrator Found Beauty in the Slimiest of Sea Creatures

Illustrations from the Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678)

Epic Ink: How Japanese Warrior Prints Popularized the Full-Body Tattoo

At the Solstice, in Praise of Darkness

The Problem of Colour

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