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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?
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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.