Reviving an Ancestral Hawaiian Tradition, Lehuauakea Reimagines Kapa in Bold Textile Works
“My favorite thing about kapa is that it is simultaneously ancestral, ancient, and contemporary,” says Lehuauakea (Kanaka Maoli), who recently…
Five Years in the Making, a MiG-21 Fighter Jet Gets a Glow-Up from Tens of Millions of Glass Beads
“We’re going to make stuff out of beads that is going to take people’s breath away,” says Ralph Ziman in…
‘Ukrainian Modernism’ Chronicles the Nation’s Midcentury Architectural Marvels
During the Soviet era, modernist architecture rose to popularity as a means to express power, prestige, and views toward the…
‘Titanic: The Digital Resurrection’ Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster
In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean at a…
Christopher Wilton-Steer’s 25,000-Mile Journey Captures a Contemporary View of an Ancient Trade Route
From aerial views of modern-day Venice to a 15th-century caravanserai in Kyrgyzstan, Christopher Wilton-Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of…
More Than 180 Photographs Chronicle Brutalist Suburbs and Public Buildings in ‘Eastern Blocks II’
In the second half of the 20th century, “brutalism and the shall-we-call-it ‘marketplace modernism’…when it appeared in the East, was…