Books
Revisiting the Nuclear Arms Race in 150 Business Cards
Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab, a new book by the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), is a tight little publication with a singular fascination.
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In a Performance, Walid Raad Playfully Probes His MoMA Survey
A note of hysteria begins to creep into Walid Raad’s voice as he concludes his hour-long monologue performance, "Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough," at the Museum of Modern Art.
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The Personal Passions and Detailed Devotions of the Outsider Art Fair
Now in its 24th edition, the Outsider Art Fair has found a new home this year at the Metropolitan Pavilion, currently filled with the fair's largest number of exhibitors yet.
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The Evolution of the Museum Visit, from Privilege to Personalized Experience
What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age.
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Witch Marks, Curses, and Magic in the Neglected History of Medieval Graffiti
The ornamentation of medieval churches is often associated with the elite, but carved right into the structure of the building are less visible traces of the lower and middle class: graffiti.
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A Photographer Who Exposed the Scars and Traumas of Postwar Japan
LOS ANGELES — The story of Yokosuka, as told by photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, takes place in lonely, foreboding streets, where the miracle of Japan’s postwar economy seems to not have shaken off the grit and grime of history.
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Wifredo Lam by Way of an Afrofuturist Graffiti Artist
PARIS — Wifredo Lam’s hot, hybrid style is essentially spiky.
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A Publisher of Artist’s Books That Isn't Bound by Convention
For over 30 years Granary Books, under the direction of Steve Clay, has explored the possibilities and limits of artist’s books and collaborative publishing.
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A Radiologist's X-Ray Photographs of Flowers from the 1930s
When we think of X-rays, we generally think of the human body's skeletal structure, but in the 1930s, one osteopathist turned his attention to the anatomy of plants and used his X-ray machine as what it fundamentally exists as: a camera.
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Secret Skulls Found in a Victorian Painting of a 16th-Century Magician
A ring of human skulls originally circled 16th-century magician John Dee in a painting by the English artist Henry Gillard Glindoni.
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Learning to Read Objects Like Letters
PHILADELPHIA — The “I”-shaped table is set up as if it contained a presentation of recently excavated artifacts.
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Crunching the Numbers Behind the Boom in Private Art Museums
What kind of person opens a private contemporary art museum?