Art & Design

Ranging from asbestos newspaper used for insulation to photos on glass broken into a gazillion little pieces, photograph and paper conservator Shannon Brogdon-Grantham fields some strange and unusual questions.

Ranging from asbestos newspaper used for insulation to photos on glass broken into a gazillion little pieces, photograph and paper conservator Shannon Brogdon-Grantham fields some strange and unusual questions.

What can a tea ceremony teach us about ocean plastic pollution? Quite a lot, as the art and research collective Tea Ceremony with Pacific Plastics show in this talk.

Women’s participation is often excluded in discussions of chanoyu history, but research has shed light on how women were involved in both the practice and production of tea culture in Japan from at least the mid-eighteenth century.

In this panel discussion, experts discuss Berlin’s recently rediscovered Ernst Fritzsche Gallery collection and its importance to the field of provenance.

Listen to “The Werewolf Song” from ‘First Songs,’ Michael Hurley’s 1964 debut album originally released on Folkways Recordings. This video was created by animator and illustrator Drew Christie.