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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.
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The Daring, "Degenerate" Book Jackets of the Weimar Republic
Weimar book artists mashed up the styles of new art movements — Expressionism, New Objectivity, Constructivism, plus photography — to design unique and politically provocative covers and jackets.
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Art Nouveau’s Deep Sea Muse
Art Nouveau's organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration.
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Freud’s Case Studies in Hysteria Get the Graphic Novel Treatment
Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female “hysterics” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Rethinking Life Beneath Our Cities' Concrete Overpasses
With the rapid development of transportation infrastructure in the 20th century, much of our urban land was shrouded in shadow.
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Reader’s Diary: Juliana Spahr’s ‘That Winter the Wolf Came’
Poetry not always but periodically seeks its upper limit — music, as readers of Louis Zukofsky know — and that includes Juliana Spahr’s.
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Only Abandoned: The Poetry of Marcel Broodthaers
Midway through the retrospective of Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers currently at the Museum of Modern Art, the visitor comes across the witty short film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) [The Rain (Project for a text), 1969].
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Dave Hickey, Ladies’ Man and Feminist, Made a Book About Women Artists
Dave Hickey has had some ... trouble with women before.