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A Floating, Urban Forest Where the Food Is Free
Conceived of by artist Mary Mattingly, "Swale" models what New York City might look like if food were considered not only an economic good, but a public one.
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19th-Century Portraits of Historical Figures, Guided by Their Spirits
An American artist couple known as Wella P. and L. Pet Anderson made sketches of the dead that drew inspiration not from photographs or other visual records but from supposed communication with the departed themselves.
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Invisible Ceramics and Women Made of Bread Fill a European Art Park
Bródno Sculpture Park has come to be one of Europe’s most enticing and important sites of relational and social sculpture.
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The 18th-Century Devotional Painting that Documents a Brutal Mastectomy
On April 25, 1777, a Mexican woman underwent an operation to remove six tumors from her breast. She commissioned an artist to paint it.
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A History of Photographing Ghosts
In 1860, William H. Mumler set up the first photography studio that claimed to capture the dead, and his success started a movement of spirit images.
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Unleashing Dogs' Inner Spirits in Photographs of Their Shadows
Thomas Roma's shadow portraits of dogs touch on something deeper than just the cuteness of frolicking pets.
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A Podcaster Crafts Site-Specific Audio Experiences for the Met
Over 10 episodes, Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace podcast is exploring the historical narratives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Found Furniture Pulverized into Conceptual Art
For his exhibition, Daniel Turner turned a set of steel and wood tables and folding chairs into a fine dust and sprayed it on the floor of Berlin's König Galerie.
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When a Drowned Woman's Face Became the Muse of Paris
The face of "L'Inconnue de la Seine" was a fashionable fixture of salons and studios, her enigmatic expression of a slight smile and closed eyes haunted by stories of her suicide.
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The Early Life of Bruce Conner and His Rat Bastard Bohemia
To say that Conner was an outsider who also wanted to belong is to barely scratch the surface of his paradoxical persona.
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Finding the Realism in Impressionist Childe Hassam's Work
The artist painted the rocks and coves of Appledore Island so realistically, they could be identified more than a century later.
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Lessons from the Unfolding Old Masters Forgery Scandal
The authenticity of recently "discovered" works purported to be by Frans Hals, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Orazio Gentileschi has been called into question, and they might only be the tip of the iceberg.