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Author Archives: Lauren Moya Ford
Lauren Moya Ford is a writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in Apollo, Artsy, Atlas Obscura, Flash Art, Frieze, Glasstire, Mousse Magazine, and other publications.
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Before Photography, Watercolorists Documented the Luscious Variety of Fruits and Nuts
Between 1886 and 1942, the US Department of Agriculture commissioned watercolorists to document the food from farms and orchards.
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The Almond and Pebble That Inspired a Joan Miró
The two objects, now in the archive of the Fundació Miró Mallorca, inspired a six-foot-tall sculpture.
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Michelangelo’s Last Two Decades Were His Busiest and Loneliest
William E. Wallace excavates a lesser-known but crucial final chapter of the artist’s approximately 75-year career.
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New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
Part botanical history, part social history, Allison C. Meier’s map provides a welcome alternative route through New York’s urban jungle.
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“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic
David Rothenberg photographed passersby between 2019 and March 2020 at a subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens.
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Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later?
We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way.
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How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
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Anna Torma’s Hand-Sewn Dreams
Inspired by children’s drawings, Hungarian folklore, and medieval legends, Torma’s playful, hand-sewn worlds are engrossing.
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The Silly, Sexy, and Serious Wigs That Made History
“The Wig: A Hairbrained History” explores the wig as a tool for gender bending, seduction, and disguise in a collection of fanciful short essays.
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Meet Virginia Jaramillo, a Pioneering Minimalist Who Fuses Cosmology and Science Fiction
Despite a career spanning six decades, Jaramillo’s rigorous, original work has largely been overlooked by museums and markets — until now.
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Prado Museum Reopens With a Hard Look at Spanish Sexism
“Uninvited Guests” looks at sexism in Spain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at the museum’s own essential role in perpetuating it.