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Meet LA’s Art Community: Hayv Kahraman Is Examining What It Means to Be “Immune”

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino September 14, 2020November 5, 2020

An interview series spotlighting some of the great work coming out of Los Angeles. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.

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When Disaster Can’t Be Pictured

by David Carrier March 21, 2020March 20, 2020

To represent the world is to understand it, and to understand it might, hopefully, help cope with a plague.

Posted inFilm

“Viral” Movies About Outbreaks and Pandemics to Watch While You Social Distance

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel March 16, 2020

For those who want to go down the rabbit hole of this genre, here are some topical movies to stream while quarantined.

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The Tenement Museum Maps a Century of Deadly Diseases and Their Human Stories

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 14, 2018

In a new tour, the Tenement Museum explores New York’s contagious history, from tuberculosis to the AIDS crisis, through three families.

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Visualizing Disease: A Survey of Public Health Posters

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 17, 2014July 21, 2014

Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to convey the invisible menace of a microscopic virus and its destructive symptoms.

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Posthumous Prognosis for Supposedly Syphilitic Gauguin, via His Teeth

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 27, 2014March 3, 2014

It’s long been believed that painter Paul Gauguin was wrecked by syphilis when he died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, but thanks to some old teeth thrown down a well, he may posthumously be given a cleaner bill of health.

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Study Says Painters 30% More Likely to Develop Bladder Cancer

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 3, 2010September 3, 2010

If being a painter wasn’t hard enough nowadays, the Irish Times is reporting that research published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggests that painters have a 30% higher chance of developing cancer of the bladder,

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