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The Pre-Columbian Origins of Mexico’s Modernist Architecture
In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico.
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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Printing a Poem on an Orchard’s Apples
The apples in Seattle's Piper's Orchard will ripen this summer and fall with words from a 26-section poem printed on their skin.
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Sum of the Arts
Years Botticelli fell out of fashion after his death in 1510 = 250
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Praise the Lord! The World's Oldest Bible Goes on Display at the British Museum
For only its second time on loan, the earliest known Bible is going on view this October at the British Museum.
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A New Afterlife for Cemeteries: Training Future Preservationists
The sprawling 19th-century cemeteries whose monuments and mausoleums dot the United States are often short on hands to preserve their heritage.
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Write the Stories of Thousands of Found Polaroids
In the 1970s and '80s the Polaroid instant camera quickly captured family moments and delivered the images on the spot.
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California Academy of Sciences Will Divest from Fossil Fuels
In response to environmental groups demanding science and natural history museums cut funding connected with the fossil fuel industry, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences says it will.
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A Midcentury Manhattan Mosaic Returns to Public View
A midcentury mosaic forgotten for years beneath metal paneling on a Midtown Manhattan office building is now restored and on permanent public view.
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A Lifetime of Sketchbooks from Postwar Painter Richard Diebenkorn
Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.
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Sum of the Arts
Miles messages can travel in Turkey's old whistling language = 3
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Ride a Bioluminescent Fish at New York's Newest Carousel
The SeaGlass Carousel is a decade in the making, but after delays, the $16 million project from the Battery Conservancy in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks finally officially opens today.
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A Masterpiece by Which to Remember Type Designer Hermann Zapf
In his lifetime, German type designer Hermann Zapf created around 200 typefaces across the world's languages, from Arabic to Cherokee.