19th Century
You Had to Be a Little Insane to Be a Surgeon in the 1800s
Back then surgery was nothing but rivers of pus and filth and it's a miracle the human race survived.
Evocative Neo-Impressionist Paintings Spread Over Vintage Photos
En plein air painting style mixes with old-school photography in Joshua Flint’s time capsule visual art.
Artist Uses 150-Year-Old Photography Technique to Create These Chilling Images
Victorian pictures of corpses and pale nudes mingle with contemporary images made with the photography precursor.
'Alas for the Fat One!': How the Victorians Thought Women Should Look
In her new book "Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners," Therese Oneill details all the ways it sucked to be a woman in the 19th century, from scary-looking birth control devices to impossible standards of body image.
Humans Battle Electricity in a Williamsburg Brownstone Exhibit
For a five-night opening reception, 'Electrique' transforms a building into an electrical and mechanical light and sound art installation.
Revamped Victorian Photography Imagines Anonymous Aristocrats As Birds
Photographer Sara Angelucci, fuses science and and the supernatural by merging people with mysterious birds.
Knot for Everyone: How to Make Victorian Hair Accessories
The Victorians used to harvest hair from dead people to make jewelry. I tried my hand at the century-old craft in a six-hour workshop.
Grover Cleveland, a Rapist President
The anti-corruption Democrat was only president for eight years, but he was a rapist who denied he had fathered a child for much longer.
Photographer Andreas Gursky Takes on the Masters of Landscape Art
A new exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum compares the last 30 years of his work to that of the 19th century masters.
Bob Guccione's Erotic Art from the 19th Century
The super special September issue of VICE was exclusively culled from the archives of Bob Guccione Sr.—the legendary magazine publisher who built a media empire that started with Penthouse. This portion of the issue features erotic artwork...
The Problem with White Converts
You’d think that two white guys embracing Buddhism and Islam in the age of colonialism could have become champions of antiracism. But no. They treated their new religions like other white men treat entire nations: they marched in and claimed to own it.
Original Creators: Jules Verne
A look over iconic artists from several disciplines who have let their immortal mark in today’s creators.