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All images courtesy of V&A You’ll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World’s Smallest Books at the V&A March 13, 2026 BooksDesignHistory Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark At Windsor Castle, a one-of-a-kind architectural marvel isn’t a structural part of the building itself or even a full-size feature. Here, you’ll find Queen Mary’s…

“Cathedral: Study” (2022), Carrara marble, 41 centimeters tall. All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures March 12, 2026 ArtHistory Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades.…

Beverly Price, Water Boys. All images courtesy of the Center for Art and Advocacy, shared with permission ‘The Language We Share’ Traces a Photographic Lineage Between Gordon Parks and Beverly Price March 12, 2026 HistoryPhotographySocial Issues Grace Ebert Share Email Bookmark In the practices of Beverly Price and Gordon Parks, photography operates on a continuum.…

All images © Alexander Endrullat, shared with permission Longevity and Obsoletion Impress Upon Alexander Endrullat’s Intaglio Prints March 12, 2026 Art Jackie Andres Share Email Bookmark Leipzig, Germany-based artist Alexander Endrullat has traded traditional Intaglio printing plates for discarded laptops. His ongoing series titled Off the Grid emerged from a familiar yet annoying scenario: owning…

“Tūī, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae” (2024), collection of South Canterbury Museum (2011/211.1), Timaru, Aotearoa New Zealand. Pigment inks on Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag, 176 x 140 centimeters. All images © Fiona Pardington, shared with permission Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington’s Portraits March 11, 2026 ArtHistoryNatureScience Kate Mothes Share Email…

All images © Dani Guindo, shared with permission Dani Guindo’s Dramatic Aerial Photos Reveal the Ghostly Outline of an Icelandic Glacier March 11, 2026 NaturePhotography Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark In the spectacular, lofty photos of Dani Guindo, heavy clouds and mercurial pools glow amid an Icelandic landscape. The Spanish artist, based in Reykjavík, seeks…

All images courtesy of Mischief and NPR, shared with permission Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information March 11, 2026 DesignSocial Issues Kate Mothes Share Email Bookmark In mid-2025, the Trump administration rescinded $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid, including $1.1 billion slated for the Corporation…

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…