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Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
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Instant Photographs Stripped of Their Instantaneity
HONG KONG — A Permanent Instant at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang gathers works by 10 artists raised or born in Hong Kong who have experimented with the medium of instant photography.
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The Personal and Poetic Prints of a Female Pioneer of Copier Art
GLENSIDE, Pa. — I was not particularly excited to see a show of copier art. How different could the images of these photocopies be from the actual copies themselves?
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Watch a Weed Artist Sculpt a Beautiful Unicorn Joint
The Oregon-based Greenhand — perhaps the Michelangelo of joint rolling — toked himself into cannabis culture fame in 2014 after posting an image of his Sherlock Joint to Reddit.
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Art Center Brings Tourism and Unwanted Attention to a Oaxacan Village
SAN AGUSTÍN ETLA, Mexico — I arrived in San Agustín as if in a dream, after taking an overnight bus from Mexico City that pulled into the sleepy capital of Oaxaca before sunrise.
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Meet the Sisters of the Valley, California's Radical Weed-Growing "Nuns"
Sister Kate and Sister Darcy, a pair of self-ordained new age "nuns" based in Merced, California, are on a holy mission: help make "marijuana a healing industry instead of a stoner industry," as they recently put it.
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What’s the Value of Recreating the Palmyra Arch with Digital Technology?
Seven months after ISIS destroyed Palmyra’s 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph, the structure has risen once more — this time 2,800 miles away from the ancient city, in London’s bustling Trafalgar Square.
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Remembering Malick Sidibé, the Photographer Who Captured Modern Malian Life
The Malian photographer Malick Sidibé died on Friday in Bamako, Mali.
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Climbing into a Mortuary Drawer to Smell the Scents of JFK’s Last Moments
In Famous Deaths, you experience the smells and sounds of the last four minutes of someone's life, all while closed inside a metal mortuary drawer.
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Stone and Steel Sculptures Tap into a Museum’s Industrial Roots
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nothing is a singular object here; everything is part of this place and its history.
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From a Shipping Container in Brooklyn, a New Arts Org Champions Caribbean Culture
CaribBEING is a young hybrid arts organization working to play several roles.
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Paintings of Nudes and Flowers, Dripping with Color and Quirk
Pastels, floral still lifes, and portraits of babies are about as safe and traditional as visual motifs come — they evoke a cutesy Hallmark aesthetic.