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A New Guide Maps the Overlooked Brutalism of Paris
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
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The Radical Posters of a British Women’s Art Workshop
The See Red Women’s Workshop, which ran from 1974 to 1990, began with a newspaper ad calling for female visual artists "to combat images of the ‘model woman.’”
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A Vietnamese Refugee Draws Her Family's Story
Thi Bui was three years old when her parents and siblings stowed away in a rickety fishing boat bound for coastal Malaysia in 1978.
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Mama Cass Finds Her Voice in a Comics Portrait of Her Teen Years
French cartoonist Pénélope Bagieu has taken a unique opportunity to correct public misperceptions about the musical icon’s life.
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A French Surrealist's Eclectic Remembrances of His Cohort, Finally in English
Phillipe Soupault delights in humanizing the celebrated with intimate particularization and paeanizing the obscure with encomium.
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The Lost Cultural Hubs of New York’s Gilded Age
Esther Crain's book The Gilded Age in New York, 1870–1910 chronicles the rise of the NYC metropolis and the roots of its role as an international cultural center.
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Reader’s Diary: A Poetry of Alternate Takes
Marjorie Welish’s poetry, like Thelonious Monk’s music, is a montage of moving parts in which you’d be wise to expect the unexpected.
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Enjambed with Rotten Assets: Daniel Borzutzky’s 'The Performance of Becoming Human'
Borzutsky makes pathetic fallacy less an instrument of empathy than an agent of unsettlement, provoking strong reaction to the many historical and imaginary vignettes he creates.
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The Biodiversity of the World Captured in Five Centuries of Animal Art
Charlotte Sleigh's book The Paper Zoo explores 500 years of scientific animal illustration as seen in the collections of the British Library.
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The Psychedelic Pollution Floating in the Gowanus Canal
Steven Hirsch's photographs capture unexpected beauty in one of America's most polluted waterways.
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When "Queer" Art Becomes Commonplace
In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer."
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Reader’s Diary: A Philosopher’s Fictions
It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.