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Newly Colorized Portraits of Immigrants Photographed by an Ellis Island Clerk
A book and exhibition celebrate the work of Augustus Frederick Sherman, who documented the faces of over 250 people who passed through his workplace's halls.
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The Risky Business of Restoring Leonardos
After a previous Leonardo restoration project at the Louvre resulted in multiple staff resignations, the recent cleanup of "Saint John the Baptist" took place under intense scrutiny.
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The Whimsical Work of an Animal-Loving 19th-Century Printmaker
From portraits of his dog to Japanese motifs, these fine-lined images attest to the originality of Henri-Charles Guérard, who was one of the most respected printmakers of his time.
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A Library Haunted by Hologram Books
Wenyon & Gamble's "Bibliomancy" is a hologram library of ghostly books that conjures the past while considering the future of the printed word.
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Designing and Building for the World’s 65 Million Displaced People
The exhibition Insecurities takes an unorthodox approach to artists', architects', and designers' attempts to alleviate the crises faced by millions of forcibly displaced persons.
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Envisioning a World Where White Men Are Pedestals for Sculptures
For the opening performance of her exhibition at St. Louis's Millitzer Gallery, Catalina Ouyang had five young white male performers serving as human pedestals for her sculptures.
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Native Creators and Fans Converge at the First-Ever Indigenous Comic Con
The con gathered artists, writers, illustrators, and fans in one place to celebrate and discover contemporary Native nerd culture. It also served as a corrective.
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Required Reading
This week, a house with moving walls, Dread Scott on flag burning, helping artists with illegal warehouse spaces, theorist Jacques Derrida just didn't get Seinfeld, and more.
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Weekend Words: Phoenix
"And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
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Guston After Trump and Before Christmas
I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.
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I’d Prefer Not To: 'Enacting Stillness' at The 8th Floor
Overall, the work in Enacting Stillness suggests that, contrary to some of the grander claims made about art’s political efficacy, most art intervenes in the world in a more limited, but no less essential, way.
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Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”
At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.