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The Rare Leica Camera That Smashed Auction Records
Earlier this summer, one of only 22 models of the Leica prototype "0-Series" quietly sold for over $15 million — five times the previous record for a camera.
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Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024
The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.
Art
A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces
The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.
Art
Reddit Users Share Their Most “Blursed” Images
Some things in life are more than just “blessed” or “cursed” — they are “blursed,” which is to say, both.
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Following Outcry, GameStop Pulls Tasteless “Falling Man” NFT Evoking 9/11 Attacks
The artwork emulated photographer Richard Drew’s well-known image of a person leaping from one of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.
Books
God Just Wants Us to Love Her Back
In a new graphic novel, author and cartoonist Liana Finck recasts the famously vengeful and masculine biblical God as an insecure and emotional female deity.
Art
An Artist’s Miniature Monuments to Big Memories
From a pile of scraps and everyday detritus accumulated over the last 30 years, Lydia Ricci makes imperfectly perfect replicas of quotidian moments and objects
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Play EmilyBlaster, a Computer Game Based on Emily Dickinson's Poetry
The game instructs players to recreate the poet’s starkish, rhyming prose by shooting at moving words from a fixed point, with hilarious results.
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Hagia Sophia’s Marble Floors Suffer "Tremendous Damage,” Reports Say
Images circulating online appear to show cracked and damaged floors caused by heavy cleaning machinery used at the historic structure.
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Another Dinosaur Skeleton Hits the Auction Block
Sotheby’s is offering the first Gorgosaurus to ever go under the hammer, even as some critics find sales of dinosaur fossils appalling.
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A Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Doghouse Goes on View in California
The pet home is on view at the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, Wright’s largest public project.
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Baby Mammoth, Buried for 30,000 Years, Unearthed Largely Intact in Canada
Nun cho ga, meaning “big baby animal” in the Hän language, is “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America.