"Each passing year seems to bring more alarming statistics, and this comfortable place we call home seems to grow more precarious," the artist says.
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For a forthcoming solo exhibition, Morrison channels canine personalities in every facet of life.
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In its second year, the annual gathering is the only international art fair devoted entirely to the medium.
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Need inspiration? A new image archive is a veritable trove of creativity.
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Scholars continue to unfurl millennia-old mysteries as archaeological excavations carry on in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.
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Pamela Poh Sin Tan's immersive works blur the boundaries between creative disciplines.
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Punctured with binder holes and the fringed edge of a torn-out sheet, the sculptures bear the iconic blue lines of a school notebook.
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Vibrant sculptures and site-specific installations vividly reflect the artist's community.
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Architectural arabesques and Punjabi craft traditions influence the artist's vivid mixed-media motifs.
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The hooking process allows each individual loop to be applied at a different height, creating three-dimensional reliefs.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 18, 2025 is:
minuscule \MIN-uh-skyool\ adjective
Something described as minuscule is very small. Minuscule can also mean "written in, or in the size or style of, lowercase letters," in which case it can be contrasted with majuscular.
// The number of bugs in the latest version of the video game is minuscule compared to the number that surfaced in the beta version.
// The ancient manuscripts on display are all in minuscule script.
"Resembling a stout field mouse, B. brevicauda is a tiny burrowing mammal with inconspicuous ears and minuscule eyes well hidden behind a long narrow snout." — Bill Schutt, Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans, 2024
Did you know?
Minuscule comes from the Latin adjective minusculus ("somewhat smaller" or "fairly small"), which in turn pairs the base of minus ("smaller") with -culus, a diminutive suffix (that is, one indicating small size). The minuscule spelling is consistent with the word’s etymology, but that didn’t stop English speakers from adopting the variant spelling miniscule, likely because they associated it with the combining form mini- and such words as minimal and minimum. Usage commentators generally consider the miniscule spelling an error, but it is widely used in reputable and carefully edited publications, and is accepted as a legitimate variant in some dictionaries. (Our own dictionary identifies miniscule as a "disputed spelling variant.")