If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

Though removed from the BBC's website, "The Beauty of Maps," a guide to some of the world's great objects, persists on YouTube One of the first printings of the earliest example of a map of the world ...

Fine art buying has long been the province of wealthy connoisseurs and international collectors, keen on indulging their passion and untroubled by cost and potential profit. The world of rare maps may ...

Links between maps and art were forged as far back as the early 15th Century, but many periods thereafter strengthened the associations in ways that previously had not been imagined, and one of those ...

A 1908 map of the pneumatic telegram service, a 1950s proposed subway bomb shelter map and an interactive walking tour plan with attractions that existed in Manhattan 400 years ago (think forests and ...

The Armenian Museum of America, located at 65 Main St., Watertown, recently announced the opening of two new exhibitions in its galleries. The first, “The Art of the Armenian Khachkar” was curated by ...

The latest issue of Humboldt Geographic gathers a decade of maps and stories from Cal Poly Humboldt cartography students, inviting readers to see maps not only as navigational tools but as narrative ...