Dreamers Rise

There is now a website ( link here ) dedicated to the life and work of Guy Fleming, the artist and book designer responsible for, among othe...

According to the art historian Theodore E. Stebbins, the American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) devoted more than 120 canvases to...

Since it's in Lithuania there's virtually no chance that I will ever visit it, but it cheers me no end to know that there is now an ...

When you really should have bought the book: the Taschen edition of the Augsburg Book of Miracles , published in 2014, is now out of print a...

A pastel artwork by Stasys Eidrigevičius, donated by the artist to an auction to benefit Ukrainian refugees, of whom there will be many. Mo...

These images by C. Renard are from a novel by the Belgian entomologist Ernest Candèze, which relates the adventures of a group of insects wh...

I've discovered that my old Picassa slideshow of images from the Augsburg Book of Miracles no longer works, but rather than try to recr...

Two brilliant pages from Jason Lutes's mammoth graphic novel set in the waning years of the Weimar Republic. Berlin is published ...

Goya's great series of prints Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) is renowned for its depiction of the horrors of the Pe...

Francisco Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters) 1799. "Poised alertly at Goya's fee...

What's-his-name, in the role of the original sociopath. "His poltroonery is only surpassed by his invincible avarice" ( Macmi...

This merits a look: Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture , a new "interactive archiv...

Burnside Park in Providence, Rhode Island currently sports an installation of rotatable signpost sculptures, including the one shown here, ...

Americas Society in Manhattan is currently hosting an exhibition devoted to the friendship between Jorge Luis Borges and his older compat...

Alston W. Purvis's volume in Yale's Monographics series brought this interesting Dutch printmaker to my attention. Hendrik Werkma...

I don't know if these are actual covers for the catalog of the Vilnius Book Festival or just posters, but either way I am in awe. The...