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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.
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Ranjit Hoskote's Poems Visit a Kingdom of Shadows
Hoskote's poems describe a landscape of doubt and loss.
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Adrian Piper in Her Own Words
Piper is the rare artist whose practice is informed by her skills as a philosopher.
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Biennale Bitch Tells the Hilarious Truths of the Art World
Veteran culture journalist Nadja Sayej offers filter-free commentary on the art world, which, she thinks, "needs a dose of fun."
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Examining the Suspended Present of Beirut's Cultural Geography
Judith Naeff argues that Beirut exists in a prolonged state of “protracted ‘presentness’ with limited access to past and future” — specifically, a prolonged state of precarity.
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A Graphic Artist Observes How Germany Is Not as Safe as It Promised to Be for Refugees
Ali Fitzgerald, an American expat in Berlin, began running art workshops for refugees in 2015. Her book Drawn to Berlin looks at their current difficulties as they seek and struggle for safety.
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Revisiting Emily Vanderpoel’s Color Theory Book 117 Years After Its First Release
In addition to being a watercolorist, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel was also the author of Color Problems, widely overlooked, yet staggering turn-of-the-century book on color theory.
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Aerial Photographs Reveal the Environmental Scars of American Industry
In the 1980s, photographer David T. Hanson captured aerial views of Superfund sites, revealing the environmental toll of American industry.
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The Inner Life of David Wojnarowicz Through His Words
A new transcription of the artist's recorded journals offers readers a unique perspective on his inner life and the daily realities of individuals living with the threat of AIDS.