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The Making of the Modern Latin American Metropolis
A new book explores the impact of rapid growth and industrialization on six major Latin American cities.
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The Disruptive Architecture of Border Walls
Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory.
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A Forgotten Female Flower Painter, Revived
One hundred years after Mary Hiester Reid’s death, Flower Diary recovers the elusive, overlooked artist’s life and work
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The 18th-century English Craze for One-Eyed Portraits
Most eye miniatures were exchanged between lovers, though they were also given to close friends and family members.
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A View of Oxford That Evades Its “Ethos of ‘Intellectualism’”
“Oxford has a complex social divide that tends to be ignored,” says photographer Arturo Soto.
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A Medieval Mystic as a Muse for Two Poets
Some 600 years later, Margery Kempe’s disquieting sobs continue to confound and provoke.
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For Masahisa Fukase, Cats Were Much More Than Cute
Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats.
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An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story
Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover.
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Two Books Rethink Publishing as a Radical Practice
Books from Inventory Press, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and b_books reshape our understanding of publishing and librarianship.
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Mulholland Drive, Lushly Captured in Panorama
Photographer Karen Halverson captures the historic highway in slow, dense detail.
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Photography and Its Hidden Power
Patrick Nathan suggests that capitalism benefits when human relationships are reduced to two-dimensional representations.
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Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain
The event was devised by artist Maria Lai and involved almost all of Ulassai’s 1,000 inhabitants and required nearly 17 miles of light blue denim ribbon.