Starting around 1860, England’s fashionable women began turning “their photo albums into a pioneering form of social networking,” said Lauren Weinberg in Time Out Chicago. Cheap photographs were then ...

“What is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?” It’s a sentiment that could just as much belong to a child of our own hyper-visual, hyper-connected culture as it does to its original ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

These collages are very, very odd. Comically whimsical and borderline frightening — a la Alice in Wonderland. And I have to say: I have a newfound respect for the Victorian women who made them. In the ...

To accompany the exhibition Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, from 29 June to 27 October 2019 "Collage is one of the most popular and ...

A year or so after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), English ladies started cutting up photos of their friends and relations and pasting bits and pieces of them (particularly ...

“Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia” is the subtitle of a scholarly exhibition that serves as a concise intro to the history of “paste-ups” from 1929 through the mid-1990s. More than 120 ...

Looking to perk up your home this winter by redecorating? This Smithsonian Snapshot offers design inspiration from mid-19th century family photos, tintypes and Victorian parlor collages on view in ...