Finds
- The cost of the blue from over the sea Why van Gogh could afford to stir ultramarine into his greens
- An Unnatural History of Footwear in Paintings From Mercury's winged sandals to van Gogh's battered pair
- Brushstrokes: Divisionism Seurat's argument that the eye should mix the paint, not the palette
- Portraits of Trees: Chestnuts Two different trees, one English name, a century of paintings
- The Last Museum A semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks, browsable by theme instead of keyword
- Amenemopet's 3,000-year-old painter's palette A scribe's palette at the Met, still smudged with its original pigments
- The Hopper painting behind the Psycho house Norman Bates's mansion was lifted from a 1925 Edward Hopper canvas
- Manga Kamishibai Eric Nash's book on the Japanese paper theater that preceded anime