Imprint of the artist’s left hand, by Henri-Charles Guérard, 1885. The New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art.
• The history of the index. (London Review of Books)
• How a court case involving daguerreotypes and Harvard fits into “a war over the ownership of images of Black bodies, one that is being waged on TikTok as well as in dusty archival drawers.” (The Atlantic)
• An investigation into the “racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle” in the nineteenth century. (The Public Domain Review)
• “Preserved footprints of newborn pachyderms are roughly the size of a drink coaster.” (Science News)
• On Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle. (Art in America)
• Found: 200,000-year-old hand art. (Gizmodo)
• Revisiting the Pattern and Decoration movement. (4Columns)
• “Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts.” (Rest of World)
• This week in obituaries: Norm Macdonald, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Alèmayèhu Eshèté, Carmen Balthrop, Carl Bean, Mick Tingelhoff, Michel Laclotte, María Mendiola, Saadi Yacef, Martina Hall, George Wein, Ida Nudel, John Shelby Spong, Amanda Holden, Sunil Perera, Cho Yong-gi, Gilbert Seltzer, and Abimael Guzmán.