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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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19th-Century French Caricatures Reinvented in a Game About Bird Lawyers

Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.

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Painted Colors in Conflicted Motion

Sometime in late 1997, at the former site of the New Museum, I was introduced to a seemingly dejected young painter named Odili Donald Odita.

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An Art Project Ensures Victims of Human Trafficking Don’t Fall Through the Cracks

Last year, New York-based activist-artist Molly Gochman read an article about human trafficking, an issue about which she was largely unaware.

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Revisiting a Canadian Icon's Nationalist Landscapes, in the US

LOS ANGELES — Unless you’re Canadian or an art historian, chances are you’ve never heard of the Group of Seven.

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Museums Are for Lovers (of Social Media)

LOS ANGELES — You enter the Diana Thater installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and start to read the introductory wall text.

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ArtRx LA

LOS ANGELES — This week, the Los Angeles Poverty Department mounts a retrospective at the Armory in Pasadena, Omar Pimienta offers free citizenship at the Museum of Latin American Art, the longest running photo fair on the West Coast celebrates its 25th anniversary, and more.