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All images courtesy of The Noguchi Museum An Animated Look at Noguchi’s Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built March 10, 2026 AnimationDesign Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark “I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational,” Isamu Noguchi said in a pamphlet about his Playscapes. Perhaps best…

Sarah Darnell, “The Fur Flew.” Brown hare (Lepus europaeus), Bintree, Norfolk, England. Runner-up in the Animal Behavior category. All images © the photographers, courtesy of British Wildlife Photography Awards, shared with permission Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards March 10, 2026 NaturePhotography Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark Is there…

Image courtesy of The Library of Congress Lost for More Than a Century, the First ‘Sci-Fi’ Film Ever Made Resurfaces March 10, 2026 FilmHistory Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made a silent short film that, until last month, hadn’t been publicly viewable for more than a century. “Gugusse…

All images © Federico Cairoli, courtesy of Equipo de Arquitectura, shared with permission In Paraguay, Architecture Doesn’t Come at the Expense of Nature at ‘Un Bosque en La Casa’ March 9, 2026 DesignNature Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark A new home designed by Equipo de Arquitectura begs the question: is it a house in a…

All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Elizabeth Saloka’s Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons March 9, 2026 ArtCraft Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark While most of us will pass by stray stones and piles of rubble without much of a second thought, Elizabeth Saloka sees tons…

All images courtesy of MOCAD, shared with permission Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls’ Detroit Museum March 9, 2026 Art Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark Olayami Dabls is careful to call attention to the distinction between material culture and fine art. After working as an artist and curator for the Charles…

Installation view, ‘Álvaro Urbano: PRELUDE’ (2025), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Photo by Elisabeth, courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. All images shared with permission Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants March 7, 2026 ArtNature Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark Anyone who’s decried the seasonal blip we call autumn…

All images courtesy of Letterform Archive, shared with permission ‘Lettres Décoratives’ Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters’ Vibrant Letterforms March 6, 2026 BooksDesignHistory Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters…

All images courtesy of the artist and GRANADA Gallery, shared with permission Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass March 6, 2026 ArtCraftNature Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric…

All images © David Altrath, shared with permission Scale the Dramatic Verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrath’s Dreamy Photos March 5, 2026 DesignHistoryPhotography Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm…