WASHINGTON — D.C. artist Zach Ammerman has an obsession with maps. A self-proclaimed "map nerd," he says he spent hours as a kid studying the fine details of atlases and maps. His day job has nothing ...

California is an island — at least that’s what 17th-century cartographers would have told you. Today we know they were wrong, but the maps they produced are still an essential part of California’s ...

Mapping the world is not a new thought process. It's fairly simple to track the evolution of world maps, in particular, going back centuries. Humans have always had the urge to explore and illustrate ...

What are maps for? Of course, you think you know, and so did I until I found my way to “Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art,” at the Katonah Museum of Art. The works in this terrific ...