Before climate warnings and collapse documentaries, one 19th-century artist painted the entire rise and fall of civilisation on five haunting canvases. Step inside Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire, a visual prophecy where glory turns to ash and nature always has the last word.

A tribute to Nellie Bly’s historic race around the world in 1889–1890. This collage blends portraits, newspaper clippings, and pop-art colour overlays to celebrate her journey and record-breaking return in just 72 days. Two years after she'd talked her way into a New York asylum to expose it from the inside, Nellie Bly pitched her editors an even stranger idea: send her around the world and see if she could beat the fictional 80 day journey from Jules Verne's Around the World

In 1890, a book titled How the Other Half Lives introduced readers to a world that many had ignored, the tenement slums of New York City. Behind its words and images was a determined journalist named Jacob Riis, who used a camera not for art, but for change. His story is one of hardship, resilience, and a deep commitment to social justice, one that began not in New York, but in a quiet Danish town. LONG ago it was said that “one half of the world does not know how the other