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Sum of the Arts
Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) = 20
Allison Meier
Allison C. Meier is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.
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A Photographer Instagrams the Poorest Places in the US
This past summer photographer Matt Black covered 18,000 miles of the poorest places in the United States.
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Library of Congress Celebrates First Handwritten Bible Commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery in Centuries
While the pomp around Pope Francis's United States tour recedes, the Library of Congress is marking one lasting legacy with a rare bible given in honor of his visit.
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Capturing the Ganges River through Foggy Mists
New York-based photographer Caleb Cain Marcus traveled the 1,500 miles of the Ganges River, winding through India and Bangladesh and capturing life and landscapes around the river through fog and ethereal light.
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Disassembling a Dying Ash Tree so It Can Be Reborn
LONDON — The afterlives of trees are grim. Many become mulch, others fodder for fires.
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Bells, Bicycles, and Other Monumental Sculptures Land in London’s Financial District
LONDON — For the fifth edition of the Sculpture in the City public art exhibition, towering names in contemporary art like Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, and Kris Martin have sculptures alongside the financial district's skyscrapers.
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35 Questions for a Would-Be Natural History Curator, in 1910
"Explain the principles of proper labeling, giving an outline of a suitable label for Amphelis cedrorum, Cedar Waxwing; for an army field writing desk used by General Grant during the civil war; for a fossil plant; for a mineral."
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Mobile "Food Forest" to Float the NYC Waterways in Spring 2016
New York City was once identified as much by tall ships as tall buildings — Walt Whitman celebrated it in his "Manhatta" (1860) as "The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! / the city of spires and masts!"
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Colorful Contemporary Art Books for Kids
"There are many art books for children that feature Old Masters work, which is great, but we wanted to go in a different direction," Jessica Brown, creative director of Home Grown Books, said of the publisher's new Mini Museum Series.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of recorded chess matches played by Marcel Duchamp = 72
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Nature in an Acid Bath: Early Color Films of National Park Vistas
In the 1930s the National Park Service created silent films, hand-tinted and toned with vibrant color, to promote outdoor oases to American travelers.
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Math and Madness in a 1960s 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Illustrated by Dalí
In 1969, the Maecenas Press imprint of Random House published 2,700 copies of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, each chapter accompanied by one of 12 heliogravures by Salvador Dalí.