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Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic
Artist Nancy Campbell's book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.
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Dorothea Lasky's Provocative Poems about Motherhood
The poems in Milk combine snarky sense of humor with an edge of semi-bitter self-consciousness.
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Why Leftist Activists Should Learn to "Follow the Money"
In Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age, Belgian philosopher Michel Feher proposes strategies for activists in an age of unchecked finance capitalism.
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A New Collection of Saul Steinberg’s Influential Cartoons
The Labyrinth, originally published in 1960 and long out of print, is the perfect introduction or reintroduction to Steinberg's incomparable style.
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Franklin Furnace's Pioneering Performances Are Now Archived Online
By championing work in two perennially overlooked forms, artists books and performance art, often by artists who themselves are overlooked, Franklin Furnace’s archive is a repository of what doesn’t easily fit.
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The Japanese Prints that Inspired Vincent van Gogh
A new book documents the extent to which the famed Dutch artist looked to his collection of some 660 Japanese works for inspiration.
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A New Collection of Surrealist Writings Focuses on Women Authors
The Milk Bowl of Feathers shows how women’s contributions to the Surrealist literary canon captivatingly crack the wall of Surrealist phallocracy.
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Ellie Ga’s Empire of Texts
Like Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco, Ga’s theme is a search for a truth that leaves signs everywhere, but remains out of reach.
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The Hard-to-Find Chapbooks of Geoffrey Young
Young is one of those poets, it seems, who prefers to do it all himself, how and when he feels like it.
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An Incredible 19th-Century Hair Collection That Nearly Became Trash
In the mid-1800s, naturalist Peter A. Browne assembled the world’s greatest hair collection to explain the complexity of humanity. In the 1970s, it was saved from the trash by a museum curator.
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The Colorful Cocoons of Hong Kong's Bamboo Scaffolding
Photographer Peter Steinhauer spent two decades photographing the traditional bamboo scaffolding that endures in Hong Kong.
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A Cartoonist Takes Aim at the Art World
Cartoonist Matthew Thurber doesn’t leave us with a clean moral or tidy ending to his series of comic jabs at the art world and its institutions.