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A little known fact: a great obstacle to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge was Rosie the East River Monster, whose tentacle can be seen grasping at the completed structure in an 1883 illustration.
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With turning leaves come turning pages, and so here we have assembled ten literary highlights forthcoming this fall —ranging from nonfiction to fiction, from the extensively researched to the intensely personal.
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Time to ditch those light beach reads and fill your brain with some art history. Here are five art history books we're anticipating for the fall, from the dawn of photography, to shady Soviet art fire-sales, to the art world's most scandalous murder in comic book form.
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Of all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the location of the Hanging Garden of Babylon remains the most elusive, even with its believed home right there in its name. However, new research suggests it wasn't in Babylon at all, but in another city over 300 miles away.
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Many landmark photography books are simply unavailable today. By reprinting expensive, rare, or out-of-print photobooks in new editions, the small press Errata Editions is aiming to make some significant reissues of such books available through their Books on Books project.
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Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.
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While we may not participate in miniature yacht races or have games of lawn tennis, the experience of visitors today to Brooklyn's Prospect Park isn't radically different from when it first opened in 1867.
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Staffan Ahrenberg's acquisition of Cahiers d'Art a few years ago was a nostalgic purchase. Ahrenberg, the scion of a prominent Swedish collecting family, had his memory jogged on a walk past the publication's offices in Paris, and recalled seeing its founder's name, Christian Zervos, amid the spines
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As a nun who embraced both pop culture and contemporary art, Corita Kent refracted the messages of religion through the populist medium of printmaking, leaving a legacy of vibrant art that is just now being fully explored. A new book from Prestel, Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, published in
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Is it still possible to imagine a book purporting to be about the circulation of images and art within the saturated global network that never mentions the existence of net art and digital art?
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Compared to, say, the over 40,000 year history of painting, the two centuries that people have been experimenting with photography is a blink of an eye for a medium, yet its rapid proliferation and dense, evolving culture have partially made up for lost time. Aperture magazine, which recently relaun
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The 20th-century artist and academic Josef Albers made many significant contributions to the field of geometric abstraction, though the most enduring element of his pedagogical legacy is his 1963 textbook Interaction of Color.