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Liza Kirwin|Slideshows

Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories and Collected Thoughts

Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art celebrates a form of documentation that is familiar to everyone — the list.

Steven Heller|Slideshows

Do You Copy? The Visuals of Ham Radio

The QSL card offered proof, among ham radio operators, that contact had been made. The design of these cards was not an indication of good or bad, of sophisticated or naïve thinking, but was crafted from what was available at the time. …

Kenneth Krushel|Slideshows

Bukhara: A Traveler’s Notes

Bukhara is one of the most ancient cities of the legendary Silk Road. Presented here is a slideshow of design and architecture from one traveler's visit.

Steven Heller|Slideshows

Fascist Seduction

A visit to Mussolini’s Esposizione Universale Roma makes evident that one can be fervently anti-fascist and still admire — indeed savor — aesthetics for their own merits.

Carolyn Deuschle|Slideshows

Welcome Home: Emily Hass’s "SIDES Berlin"

Artist Emily HassÂ abstracts the forms of Berlin buildings, painting them with gouache or sewing them onto paper with canvas strands.

Helen Chang|Slideshows

Jugendstil: The Youth Style of Viennese Book Art

Turn-of-the-century Vienna was a magical, infectious brew. Viennese children’s book illustrations at the time were no exception.

Michelle Hauser|Slideshows

The Leisure of Looking: A Pedestrian View in a High-Speed Era

The current exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography comes from a huge private collection of vernacular group photographs.

Michael Bierut|Slideshows

The Bones of Francois Robert

Francois Robert has spent hundreds of hours arranging the bones of a single human skeleton into a series of striking iconic shapesto create a series he calls "Stop the Violence."

Michelle Hauser|Slideshows

Finding Vivian Maier

In 2008, John Maloof purchased an anonymous body of photographic images at an auction in Chicago. After spending seven months reviewing the images he found the identity of the photographer, her name was Vivian Maier.