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On its last day of existence — or, more particularly, on a day after its last day, when it reopened just for this purpose — the St. Mark’s Bookshop sold off all of its remaining stock at $2 a copy.
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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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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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Debt is the crux where economics and morality intersect.
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Imagine confronting past versions of yourself — would you recognize your present self in them or feel completely alienated?
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Anselm Kiefer bears a burdensome relationship to the written word.
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The work of Marcel Broodthaers balances erudite postmodernism and a straightforwardness so literal that it borders on humorous.
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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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If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City's might be the flower bouquet.
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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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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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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."