It would appear that the martyrdom of a Filipino senator and a sweet English dessert have nothing in common and, technically, this is entirely true. However, there is something we can do to combine these two seemingly disparate holidays, to laud the triumph of democracy over tyranny, to have our sponge cake and eat it, too.
Category: Collection Highlights
Beat this summer's brutal heat and fireproof your home by building it out of Natco Hollow Tile! These terra cotta bricks are specially designed using the best clay and firing more »
Hieronymus Bock, Kreütterbuch darin unterscheidt Nammen und Würckung der Kreütter [Herbal], 1587. The description for this page is dancing peasants and bagpiper under Linden Tree. This is just one of more »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/4899537612/in/photostream/Artpolice is a serial that can be found in the Smithsonian American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library’s own collection of “little magazines,” which specializes in the forward-thinking art and aesthetics of small press publications of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
Looking for creative ways to reduce your electricity consumption? If you are a horse owner, look no further than the Chicago Bicycle Clipper!
In Dean’s New Book of Dissolving Views, the scene changes on the page surface as a venetian blind slat mechanism moves into place as the tab is activated.
Although the Freer Gallery of Art is generally well-known as an Asian art museum, it also houses a no-less-important collection of a large number of paintings and etchings by James McNeill Whistler.