In 1853, John Benjamin Dancer achieved a feat of seemingly impossible scale: he shrunk an image to the size of a sharpened pencil tip. Anika Burgess explores the invention of…

While their commercial work consists of the posed portraits and conventional landscapes typical of their time, Berg and Høeg’s private archive brims with experiments in the presentation of gender. Berg…

Feron (now Ferronius) wakes in Ancient Rome. The sun is hot here too. “Its burning rays even penetrated the purple splendor of the gold-fringed awnings over the seventy thousand perspiring…

At the height of the crop circle craze of the 1980s and 1990s, any number of explanations, natural and unnatural, were proposed for the perfectly crushed patches of cereal appearing…

And yet, the queue was, instead, a destabilizing challenge to a system built on interlocking binaries: long versus short, feminine versus masculine, decorative versus plain, weak versus powerful. Queues behaved…

The circular cutaways employed in The Cheese Mites and other trick films, signaling a perspectival shift from our world to another, bear an uncanny resemblance to another form of entertainment:…

Female astronomical first, in 2025 and 1787. Source link

When Princess Elisabeth von Hessen-Kassel (1596–1625) was christened in 1596, the festivities lasted four days. There were fireworks displays, knightly tournaments (some of the last ever held in Europe), and…

Perhaps a more revealing aspect of the Manifesto was the claim that: “Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness.” This statement conferred a local imprimatur on a vision…