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The Design Nostalgia of Japan's Train Station Stamps
Railroad Station Stamp Designs captures the scope and evolution of these unique tokens, capturing the uniqueness of place through single small pictures.
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The Men Behind MoMA’s Taste for Modernist Design
Long before it became a cultural juggernaut, MoMA was helmed by a young intellectual named Alfred H. Barr Jr. who, from 1929 to 1934, worked in close collaboration with architect Philip Johnson to make the museum an influential platform for modernism.
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Gruesome and Surreal Surgical Illustrations from the 15th–19th Centuries
In 1811, nearly four decades before the advent of anesthesia, the English novelist Fanny Burney underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer.
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Why Japan's Futuristic Micro-Homes Are So Popular
Like in many of the world's most densely populated nations, real estate in Japan is tough to come by.
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Heavy Metal Headbangers Frozen in Time
With hair flying and faces contorted in expressions between joy and agony, the heavy metal fans captured by Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn are a frenzy of movement in saturated color.
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A Book of Art and Essays Explores Psychedelics as a Spiritual Technology
The intersections between Eastern philosophy and psychedelic drugs are explored in Zig Zag Zen, a newly expanded edition of an anthology of essays, interviews, and artwork.
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A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
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A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
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A Sonic Alarm for Our Natural World Going Silent
Bernie Krause has listened to nature since 1968, and in his decades recording environmental noise has become attuned to its changes.
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The Geometric Aesthetics of Piet Mondrian's Studios
Dutch artist Piet Mondrian lived a nomadic life, caught between the two World Wars, and he transformed each new studio and home into a reflection of his current practice.
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Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'
So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.
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Vision, Music, and the Scepter: Ben Mazer’s 'The Glass Piano'
Ben Mazer may best be considered a poet for poets; his work a fortress against the common reader.