Where to start

The Archive is arranged, not ranked, and it rewards a slow scroll. If you would rather not scroll it end to end, here are three ways in.

By subject

From what most walls take to what fewer do.

By the wall

Hang three on a drawn room at their true size, against a sofa that is two metres wide. The sizes settle the choice more often than the pictures do.

Open the wall →

Ten to begin with

The ten the home page opens on — works most people know by sight, from ten different hands.

See the ten →

Or one at random

Let the Archive pick.

Show me one →