This is an edited extract from Art, Idleness and Leviathans: Alfred Evans’ Scrimshaw, an essay commissioned by the Powerhouse for the Writing Objects series.

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

Across New England, the time-honoured charms of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are getting a new lease of life.

Across New England, the time-honoured charms of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are getting a new lease of life.

Celebrate the annual migration with whale walks, beach fires, chowder and wine tastings, whale-themed music and more.

Cambridge can boast that it's home to two Michelin-star restaurants but there are many more exceptional places to eat in the ...

Celebrate the annual migration with whale walks, beach fires, chowder and wine tastings, whale-themed music and more.

in her own version of scrimshaw, from which emerge images of the sea creatures from Drexciya, a mythical underwater Black Atlantis. Gallagher received the American Academy Award in Art and a Joan ...

But it can also be in terms of the form, the way that the Watery Ecstatic drawings are made, which is much like my version of scrimshaw. Scrimshaw was this carving into bone that sailors did as they ...

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