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Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
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An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Poetry
Those familiar with the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat will agree that he is a writer.
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Publisher of Small-Format Comics Gives Emerging Authors a Big Break
At just 24 pages, each comic in British publisher Nobrow's 17x23 series is designed to be an accessible gateway for readers to discover emerging authors, and for those authors to create what is often their first print publication.
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Book Designs That Approach Reading as a Creative Act
When searching for a book to give his five-year-old son in 1945, Italian artist Bruno Munari was frustrated by the standard fairytale narratives and structured plots available.
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Turning a Historical Village into a Place for Urban Dialogue
For three weeks in the fall of 2013, a 25-acre heritage village in Ontario was transformed by over 30 artists into a small city of installations questioning lines between rural and urban, past and future.
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The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
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The Early Color Films Left Out of the History of Cinema
Dorothy stepping into a Technicolor Oz in 1938 is so iconic that the decades of color film history before it are almost forgotten.
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A Tale of Cats and Boarding School, Written by a 10-Year-Old Queen Victoria
A red notebook in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle reveals a whimsical tale of a motherless girl exiled to boarding school, written in diligently neat script by a 10-year-old Queen Victoria.
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Portraits from UK's Historic and Obscure Pagan Festivals
Over a thousand years since Christianity rose to dominance in the United Kingdom, pagan traditions continue to thrive.
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Faced With Digital Ubiquity, Artists Still Cherish Crafting Materials
Postdigital Artisans: Craftsmanship with a New Aesthetic in Fashion, Art, Design, and Architecture, recently published by Frame Publishers, explores the works of 60 international artists working with or in response to the digital moment.
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The Promise of Glamor and Adventure in Mid-Century Airline Advertising
From the end of World War II to the 1970s, airline travel experienced a revolution in extended routes and better aircrafts.
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Historian Cracks a Code and Discovers a Possible Portrait of Shakespeare
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows," William Shakespeare wrote in a stanza from A Midsummer Night's Dream.