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Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
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Paul J. Sachs Trained a Generation of American Museum Leaders, Including Alfred Barr
Between 1921 and 1948, Sachs taught a year-long graduate class at the Fogg Art Museum “that decisively shaped the development, character, and ethos of the American art museum.”
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How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America
The Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.
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Miyó Vestrini, a Fierce Venezuelan Poet Who Wrote About Death
Grenade in Mouth is the first full-length collection of Vestrini’s texts available in English.
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Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.
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Jack Kerouac's Beat Paintings
A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.
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A Colossal Mural Chronicles 375 Million Years of Bird Evolution
Artist Jane Kim painted a 2,500 square-foot "Wall of Birds" mural at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York.
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How John Berger Restores Our Relationship to Art
A new biography on Berger reveals a writer who to this day speaks most eloquently and passionately to our frustrations, fears, hopes, and desires.
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An Eerie Book Fuses Snippets of Text with Found Imagery
In Guestbook: Ghost Stories, Leanne Shapton suggests that hauntings occur when the past’s bony fingers grasp at the present, touching us like a ghost might.
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A New Book Probes Duchamp's Last Hours of Life
Duchamp's Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.
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A Writer's Choice to Be Borderline Invisible
Small presses and editions remind us that that we're free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion.
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Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.