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Uncovering a Manifesto in the Blog of Visionary Architect Lebbeus Woods
From 2007 to 2012, the late architect Lebbeus Woods kept a blog that offered a peek into the mind of one of our most visionary contemporary creators.
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A Collection of Creative Cartographers' Madcap Maps
Originally intended purely as tools for navigation, maps have long branched off from this practical function to become an unexpected medium for visual expression.
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Reader's Diary: Maurizio Lazzarato's ‘The Making of the Indebted Man’
Debt is the crux where economics and morality intersect.
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In His New Book, Daniel Clowes Explores Our Urge to Change the Past
Imagine confronting past versions of yourself — would you recognize your present self in them or feel completely alienated?
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Parsing Anselm Kiefer’s Digressive Notebooks
Anselm Kiefer bears a burdensome relationship to the written word.
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Marcel Broodthaers's Teeny-Tiny Atlas
The work of Marcel Broodthaers balances erudite postmodernism and a straightforwardness so literal that it borders on humorous.
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Bright Illustrations Interpret Arabic Tongue Twisters
A witty composition of lively geometrical shapes that turn the Arabic alphabet into a story-like puzzle, Tongue Twister was awarded for its “original attempt to give visual form to tongue twisters and the difficulty of pronouncing certain words very fast."
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A Tribute to New York's Wilting Flower District
If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City's might be the flower bouquet.
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A Rabid and Neurotic Worldview in a Suffocating Graphic Novel
Providence, Rhode Island-based multi-hyphenate Brian Chippendale is best known as the masked drummer and howling vocalist of noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. He’s also a RISD dropout, cartoonist, and artist.
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Reader's Diary: Mary Mothersill's ‘Beauty Restored’
Last summer I found this copy of a book I’d long been curious about on the “discard” shelves of the East Hampton Library.
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Bright Lights, Blinged Bible at the Morgan Library
The 9th-century Lindau Gospels, named for its former home at the Lindau Abbey on Lake Constance in Germany, wasn't the first book J. Pierpont Morgan purchased for his library, but in the collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, it's labeled "MS M. 1."
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Photos Capture the Rise of a Carefully Crafted Chinese Celebrity
The name of Chinese actress and pop singer Fan Bingbing has been cropping up more and more frequently in the headlines of Western news publications.