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Dusting Off Victorian Science Specimens, from Two-Faced Kittens to Slug Models
After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon's eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University.
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'The Divine' and 'The Realist’: The Diverging Worlds of Twin Comics Artists
The pristine linework of artist Tomer Hanuka is now featured in a slim new graphic novel from the NYC-based Israeli artist, along with his twin brother, Asaf, and writer/game designer Boaz Lavie.
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The Grainy Doom of the Apocalypse on Film
Whether a bang of nuclear annihilation or the slow creep of a pandemic, our potential end-of-world wastelands have their own bleak visual language.
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Borrowing Books from Sculptural Micro-Libraries
With the rise of e-books challenging public interest in printed matter, some community libraries have scaled down their collections while others are championing physical tomes through unexpected creative endeavors.
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Oldest Fragment of Koran Found in UK Library
A 1,370-year-old section of the Koran possibly dating back to the life of Mohammed has been discovered in central England.
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UK Artist Parodies Trolling with Snail “Hate” Mail
Nearly half of all internet users have found themselves targeted by trolls.
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In a Success-Driven Culture, an Artist Publishes Her Rejection Letters
Dana Stirling isn't exactly what you'd call unsuccessful.
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Tracing Devendra Banhart's Visual and Musical Sensibility Through Drawing
While Devendra Banhart was making his folk-rock music, he was also producing a large body of visual art that for the first time is brought together in book form.
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Where Primordial Lava Flows into Ice
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
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Riding Backwards to See What You Missed
In his introduction to Clarence Major’s new poetry collection From Now On, Yusef Komunyakaa hints, even if he does not directly state, that there is a kind of natural quietude about Major’s work.
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“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Hans Arp and others gathered for events that have come down to us in d
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Agnes Martin: In Two New Books, A Life Revealed
How does one begin to tell — or unravel — the story of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding?