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Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy

Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil

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Coney Island at Night (1905)

Edison Studios film showing the lights of Luna Park and Dreamland during the peak of the famed New York amusement district.

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Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

19th-century German chromolithographs of paper lanterns, the kind used to celebrate St. Martin's Day.

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Cliché-Verre and Friendship in 19th-Century France

In the 1850s, as photography took its first steps toward commercial reproducibility, a more intimate use for light-sensitive plates briefly

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Folk Art and Bold Geometric Shapes Flourish in Lisa Congdon's Joyful Paintings — Colossal

Artist Lisa Congdon renders vibrant geometric shapes and folk art symbols to create vivid works brimming with color and optimism.

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Ashraful Arefin

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A Reissued Book Reveals Hundreds of Photos from Frida Kahlo's Personal Collection — Colossal

The book features hundreds of black-and-white images that, before 2004, had been hidden in storage in the artist's Mexico City home.

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Take an Immersive Journey Through an Ancient Rainforest's Mycelial Network in 'Fungi: Web of Life' — Colossal

"Of all the fungal species on Earth, we've only described about five percent," says biologist Merlin Sheldrake in the trailer for the visual