Making the large small gives power to the maker, the observer, the child.

These itty-bitty instructions are made in tribute to Yoko Ono—the original nester of beds and ideas—who developed her own set of directions in the book Grapefruit.

I think in any form of miniature-making, there is an obsession with details that can spill over into absurdity.

Looking at the miniature felt like taking a top-shelf tranquilizer, or wafting on a cloud. In a word: euphoric.

I’m captured by details and skill, ever wondering about intent and maker, charmed by the mystery, and often a bit moved. I admire that earnest productive guy. I bet I’d like him too.

That scene is a world in miniature, a story sketched in black and white, an interpretation of life as it no longer is. It’s a drawing so suitable for framing that I wonder if the original...

Against all odds the Palekh masters thrived as lacquer-box artists, but they also faced periodic waves of attacks—in the 1930s and again after WWII—for their connections to both...

Pedacito means little piece; Southerners might say “little bit” instead. My grandson is my pedacito, my precious, special, much beloved little human.

An example of an art form that demands such concentration is Mughal miniature painting, an art form that developed in the Indian subcontinent after the Emperor Humayun returned from fifteen...

In the world of tiny things, nothing is smaller or more devastating than viruses that we cannot see with the naked eye but that hold the potential to kill millions and bring the world...