Stories by prismatic

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Jean Stein's Rolodex: The legendary editor's social genius

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

The Lost Art of the Negative

Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone Can't Let Go of Stardew Valley

Spots, stripes and more: Working out the logic of animal patterns

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (Ca. 650–1927)

World in a Box

Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)

How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to Be

The biggest art heist in history

Sitting on the Art

The Modest Fantasy of the PICO-8 (2016)

Japanese Trade Publications Helped Japan Form a New Graphic Identity (2023)

Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87

Tom Seidmann-Freud's Book of Hare Stories (1924)

For Sale: A Rare Klimt Portrait, Valued at $32M. But of Whom?

How'd You Make That? Art from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough

Stanley Kubrick did it his way

The Color of Silence

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