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The Unflinching Sensuality of Ren Hang's Photographs
The young artist, who died last month at age 29, is the subject of a new monograph from TASCHEN.
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Alan Felsenthal Emerges from His Song Cave and Sings to Us
In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.
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A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
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Chronicling the Days When Superheroes Knocked Out Nazis
The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.
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Barron Trump Turned into a Beautiful Manga Boy
In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.
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The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture
Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.
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The Dynamic Brain Drawings of the Father of Modern Neuroscience
A publication from Abrams Books and a traveling exhibit currently at the Weisman Art Museum highlight the medical illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
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360-Degree Panoramas of Grand American Libraries
Thomas R. Schiff's photographs capture the American library as it transformed from a members-only space into a public institution.
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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.