A few that caught my eye (and might catch yours):

• All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860
• American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s
• American Art Posters of the 1890s in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
• Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Ancient Art in Miniature: Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Collection of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky
• Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy
• Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 1991–2002

most people won’t tell teenage girls especially the together, articulate ones that they are lazy and the quality of their work is unacceptable. And sometimes kids need to hear that, or they have no reason to step up.

via How To Think.

The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million | The Public Domain Review.

10 Easy Pieces: Wall-Mounted Shelving Systems : Remodelista.

…Town notables, as town autonomy vanished, found they had become subordinate implements of the imperial bureaucracy, and the life went out of their public functions, which grew every decade more disagreeable, more profitless and more oppressive. They had to be driven to their unwelcome tasks and burdens, which brought no real honor and gratified no ambition. Like beasts at the water-wheel, they plodded a dreary round to haul up the taxes needed by their rulers….

Previté-Orton, C. W.. The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Print

“Withdrawn from Circulation,” a gorgeous book sculpture by artist Wendy Kawabata from this great New Yorker piece on book fetishists vs. anti-fetishists – a fine addition to this omnibus of extraordinary book sculptures.

via Explore – “Withdrawn from Circulation,” a gorgeous book….

via GeyserOfAwesome.com

Make Analog Synthesizers Teaches ‘Modern Approach To Old-School Sound Synthesis’ » Synthtopia.

The Accidents of Youth 1819 | The Public Domain Review.

The Accidents of Youth, consisting of short histories, calculated to improve the moral conduct of children, and warn them of the many dangers to which they are exposed : illustrated by engravings; 1819; Jas. W. and Chas. Adlard, London.