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Eileen Agar’s Surrealist Sea
“Surrealism for me draws its inspiration from nature,” writes Eileen Agar in her memoir A Look at My Life.
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Making Comics Rescued These Creators During COVID-19
Rescue Party, a selection of comics from around the world, feels like both a celebration and a memorial: We made it.
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The Unnatural Link Between Mothering and Technological Surveillance
Supervision provided me, as a curator/new mom, an entry point into how the labor that is mothering intersects with technology and surveillance.
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Photographing the Lives of Black American Cowboys
The Long Ride Home brings together selections from Ron Tarver’s 15,000 images chronicling Black cowboy culture across the US.
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The Marvelous and Monstrous Reality of Being a New York Artist
Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face.
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How Michelangelo’s Dome Survived Through the Centuries
A new book resurrects the oft-overlooked story of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, whose dome was saved from collapse by a team of mathematicians and the Pope.
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Art-World Fiction We’re Reading This Summer
Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art.
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The Enslaved People Who Wrote Down the New Testament
Art history has long concealed the scribes who put swaths of the Bible and early Christian writings on paper.
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Esther Pressoir Is the Coolest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
In 1927, Pressoir carried 30 pounds of art-making supplies on a bike ride from France to Italy. It was just the beginning of an inimitable artistic journey.
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Why Is It So Easy to Buy a Human Skull Online?
Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham’s These Were People Once mines the illicit online sale of human remains and the social media algorithms that enable it.
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The Delightfully Saturated History of Color Charts
Three tomes give new meaning to “full color” by chronicling the visual history of color charts, swatches, palettes, and more.
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The Lost Art of Handwriting
A new book provides a glimpse into how some of the most resoundingly famous writers actually, you know, wrote.