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World's Oldest Continuously Operating Library Begins a New Chapter
Established in 859 CE, Morocco's al-Qarawiyyin Library will soon reopen to the public with architectural details for the 21st century.
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Visiting the Museum of Modern Art at Sunrise
For those who wake up hungry for art, the Museum of Modern Art is opening its doors at 7:30am every Wednesday in October.
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The Venezuelan Modernist Who Took Inspiration from Graphic Design
Gerd Leufert's visual art carries a freedom that the branding, emblems, and logos that he made as a graphic designer did not have.
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The Posthumous Fame of the 19th Century's Greatest Vegetable Photographer
Charles Jones photographed hundreds of vegetables in the 19th century, but it was only in 1981 that his work was rediscovered by chance.
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The Crooked Tree, a Story of Staying Strange
My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads.
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Required Reading
This week, a new public art work by Ursula von Rydingsvard, a former Yves Klein model speaks, the original webcam girl, podcasts, and more.
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Weekend Words: Alas
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Cormac McCarthy's ‘Blood Meridian’
Thanks to Blood Meridian, I’ve learned, at least temporarily, the meanings of “quirt,” “pritchel,” and even the seemingly ultra-rare “malandered.”
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The Tender Proceduralism of Solmaz Sharif’s 'Look'
More than merely taking a side in a long-running coterie debate, Look’s selective disclosures of its method stand out because they represent a way of pointing to artistic process without fetishizing it.
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Stoic Beauty
At one point, while looking at Roy McMakin’s four identical green tables, I had the sudden urge to wipe the dust off one of them, except there wasn’t any dust.
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After the Storm, and Before
Marco Breuer has been making abstract photographs since the early 1990s. However, in contrast to Aaron Siskind, whose black-and-white photographs of walls were linked to the gestural paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, particularly those of his friend Franz Kline, Breuer works with sheets of c
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Surveyor of Shadows
While writers have drawn a line, so to speak, between Soriano and Sol LeWitt, it seems to me that there are profound differences between their wall drawings. Whereas LeWitt’s self-contained works make no reference to the changes of everyday life, Soriano’s are based on time, light, and shadows cast