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Praise the Lord! The World's Oldest Bible Goes on Display at the British Museum
For only its second time on loan, the earliest known Bible is going on view this October at the British Museum.
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The Books that Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century
Books aimed at women on pitching tents, cooking on campfires, dressing for hikes, and surviving in the wild were published in the United States, as more and more women went out into the woods.
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Illustrated Guides to Camping Like an Early-20th-Century American
The Rare Book Room of the New York Academy of Medicine Library in East Harlem has a trove of printed materials connected to camping and outdoor recreation in the early 1900s.
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The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry
Since the outset of his career, Bernar Venet has been an inveterate experimentalist, an intrepid worker in a surprising variety of media. “People know my sculptures, of course,” he says, most likely referring to the monumental steel arcs that have garnered him international renown, “but they don’t k
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Delving into Multiple Depths: Barbara Henning’s 'A Day Like Today'
Poems preoccupied with geography, for the impatient reader, can feel less like landscapes and more like land mines to be avoided.
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Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
The 17th-century Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu) is so fragile that until digitization no one was allowed to open it.
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Surreal Photographs of Chinese Amusement Parks in Hibernation
Italian photographer Stefano Cerio has captured ski resorts at night, empty cruise ships, drained water parks, and, most recently, the uncanny bleakness of China's off-season amusement parks and other constructed entertainment.
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Transient Truths in Fragile Focus: Geoffrey O’Brien’s 'In a Mist'
Geoffrey O’Brien — critic, columnist, essayist, editor-in-chief of The Library of America, and poet — is both a preservationist and an elegist, savoring what can be saved, acknowledging what will always be lost.
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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.