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The Mobius Strip Melding Sci-fi and Architecture
The futures that are built through architecture and the futures that are constructed through science fiction aren't always galaxies apart.
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The 19th-Century Story of the Wonderful Tattooed Man
The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently digitized so that we can all read this tale of the 19th century.
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Living in Hypothesis: The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli
It’s refreshing, in this age of ubiquitous self-promotion, to pick up a book modestly titled My Poems Won’t Change The World, the first substantial American anthology of Patrizia Cavalli’s work.
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Inside the Mind of Hans Ulrich Obrist
The celebrity curator may be a phenomenon on the rise, but before Klaus Biesenbach and Paola Antonelli, there was Hans Ulrich Obrist. Obrist, who's currently the co-director of exhibitions and programs and director of international programs at London's Serpentine Gallery, has a list of curatorial ac
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Bright Nights, Weird City: Photographs from the New NYC Underground
Boats constructed from the refuse of New York City; parties with flames in abandoned buildings; concerts where the crowd consumes the band in a frenzy. These are the DIY and dirty scenes of the city that Tod Seelie has spent around 15 years photographing …
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When the Brooklyn Bridge Was Attacked by a Tentacle Monster and Other Alternate Histories
A little known fact: a great obstacle to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge was Rosie the East River Monster, whose tentacle can be seen grasping at the completed structure in an 1883 illustration.
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Some Fall Literary Releases You Should Know About
With turning leaves come turning pages, and so here we have assembled ten literary highlights forthcoming this fall —ranging from nonfiction to fiction, from the extensively researched to the intensely personal.
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From Soviets to Scandal: Five Anticipated Art Historical Book Releases
Time to ditch those light beach reads and fill your brain with some art history. Here are five art history books we're anticipating for the fall, from the dawn of photography, to shady Soviet art fire-sales, to the art world's most scandalous murder in comic book form.
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Was the Legendary Hanging Garden Not in Babylon at All?
Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the location of the Hanging Garden of Babylon remains the most elusive, even with its believed home right there in its name. However, new research suggests it wasn't in Babylon at all, but in another city over 300 miles away.
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Rare and Forgotten Photography Books, Resurrected
Many landmark photography books are simply unavailable today. By reprinting expensive, rare, or out-of-print photobooks in new editions, the small press Errata Editions is aiming to make some significant reissues of such books available through their Books on Books project.
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Consider the Migrant
Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.
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Better than Central Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece
While we may not participate in miniature yacht races or have games of lawn tennis, the experience of visitors today to Brooklyn's Prospect Park isn't radically different from when it first opened in 1867.