Picture Piece

The artist Simon Starling photographs Giorgio Griffa’s studio in Turin

Chloe Aridjis recalls taking tea with the great surrealist in her home in Mexico

To what extent did the ancients colour their sculptures?

The remarkable story of Hercules Florence and his pharmacy labels 

Decoding the image of Stuart Hall manning a crèche at the Women’s Liberation Movement conference

X-ray records in the Soviet Union

An image of the sole survivor tree after the 2011 tsunami in Japan 

Josef Albers's secret symbol for the Manuscript society at Yale University

A map of the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies based on observations from the Gaia satellite

Marilyn Monroe and drone warfare

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick photographed by Terry Richardson

Georgiana Houghton's 19th-century spirit paintings

The Medieval women who illustrated manuscripts are finally being recognized

The Michelangelo sculpture that obsessed Sigmund Freud

The drawings of Charles Darwin's children

A troupe of holographic protesters descends on Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square

Bare faced censorship at the Capitoline Museum

Digital hallucinations and formless beasts

The revered thinker's only acting performance

In her book, Photographs of British Algae, Victorian botanist Anna Atkins reveals the beautiful process of cyanotype