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A Guide to What Replaced the Avant-garde Spaces of 20th-Century New York
Which art hubs of 20th century New York City are now sterilized condos, and where does the creative spirit remain?
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Henry Howard, the Forgotten 19th-Century Architect of New Orleans
A three-decade exhumation to retrieve the forgotten career of one of the most influential 19th-century American architects was completed this June with the release of Henry Howard: Louisiana's Architect.
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The Enduring Relevance of Artists’ Books
Few books or critics have as astutely examined the history and predicted the evolution of artists’ books as Johanna Drucker does in The Century of Artists’ Books (1994).
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5 Mini Reviews of Zines from the NY Art Book Fair
The 2015 edition of Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair opens to the public today and in anticipation we reviewed some of its standout offerings.
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The Resurrection of a Lost 19th-Century Butterfly Manuscript
Titian Peale could have been the first major American lepidopterist, but instead his five decades of vibrant butterfly illustrations and research languished, unpublished until 130 years after his death.
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What Was He Supposed to Do, Submit to a Shivering World? The Collected Poems of Michael Gizzi
It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty.
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Two Comics Narrate the Unsaid and the Unknown
A common piece of advice to writers is to show, rather than tell.
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The Creation, and Re-creation, of the Curator
After centuries of slaving away in the shadowy alcoves of museums, libraries, and archives, curators are finally having their 15 minutes in the spotlight.
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A 17th-Century Woman Artist's Butterfly Journey
In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America's Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company.
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The Most Fantastic Architecture of the Soviet Union Was Built on Paper
Restricted by the aesthetic limits on architecture in the Soviet Union, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin imagined the most fantastic cities and wondrous structures on paper.
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How the First Illustrated English Book Described the Universe
The first illustrated English book was ambitious, describing large ideas like the roundness of the Earth and why we experience day and night.
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Obsession, Exploded: The Stories of Clarice Lispector
“How do I know?” asks a character standing in for author Clarice Lispector in “Before the Rio–Niterói Bridge,” included in New Directions’ recent release of The Complete Stories. “I know the same way you do by imaginative guessing. I know, period.”