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Elaborate Halloween Costume Tips from a 19th-Century Guide to Fancy Dress
Looking for a Halloween costume? Here's a 19th-century guide to dressing for fancy balls, with costumes for witches, carrier pigeons, glowworms, and air.
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Art
Grappling with the Hudson River School
In an exhibition at the former home of Frederic Edwin Church, a key member of the movement, Teresita Fernández reimagines the legacy of American landscape painting.
Art
How Graffiti Influenced Elizabeth Murray
Given some historical context, the impact graffiti had on the paintings Murray made during the 1980s is plain to see.
Art
A DJ Mines Her Grandfather's Record Collection at the Knockdown Center
DJ Susan Z Anthony will play music spanning the late 1950s to the mid-'70s at Azikiwe Mohammed's fictional thrift store.
Art
An Artist's Hunt for Singing Sand from Deserts Around the Globe
Artist Lotte Geeven is hoping to make the sandy symphonies of the desert more accessible.
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The Nourishing Relationship of Jules Olitski and Anthony Caro
An exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery offers a capsule vision of the relationship of the two artists during these formative years.
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Using AI to Pull Memories from Red Hook’s Waters
Traveling between Red Hook and Manhattan by ferry, an AI app talks to the water — and gets the water to talk back.
In Brief
A Mysterious Letter Claims a Long-Lost Baroque Painting Is in LA
The letter, received some two years ago by curator of Latin American art at LACMA, was penned in an odd, first-person style, speaking as the painting itself.
Art
Censored in 1970s Guatemala, a Hamlet-Inspired Play Is Restaged in LA
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa features five LA-based performers wearing costumes deigned by the artist and continues a tradition of theatrical resistance.
Art
Inventive, Mysterious Paintings that Exceed Expectations
Jeff Sonhouse's exhibition at Tilton Gallery is visually rewarding and acutely intelligent.
Books
Loved to Death: A Photographer's Tribute to Discarded Library Books
Stamped "DISCARD" or "WITHDRAWN," the books in photographer Kerry Mansfield's Expired have been exiled from the libraries where they were loved.
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