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Painting Disaster From a Distance

Avatar photo by Louis Bury October 26, 2019October 25, 2019

Motohide Takami’s images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.

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Rutgers University Accused of Unconstitutionally Defunding a Student Newspaper

by Hakim Bishara June 6, 2019June 6, 2019

The Daily Targum, Rutgers’s 150-year-old student newspaper, is struggling for financial survival after it lost most of its funding in a recent student referendum.

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Fire at Glasgow School of Art Displaces Residents for Months, Guts Mackintosh Building

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber August 29, 2018

Local residents cordoned from their homes and businesses for 10 weeks following the devastating blaze.

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A Crowdfunding Effort Launches to Commemorate Khadija Saye, Artist Killed in London Inferno

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 21, 2017June 21, 2017

The campaign, launched by three friends and supporters of Saye’s, aims to raise £50,000 to promote the work of other young artists.

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Artist Khadija Saye Dies in Massive Fire in London Apartment Building [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 14, 2017June 19, 2017

The artist, who lived with her mother on the 20th floor of the 24-story building, was last heard from at 3am this morning.

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The Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculpture Pulsing Behind the Olympic Cauldron

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 11, 2016August 11, 2016

The kinetic sculpture behind the Rio 2016 Olympic cauldron is so hypnotic you might not have noticed the flame itself is rather tiny compared to past games.

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An Excerpt from ‘On Fire,’ Artists’ Tales of Devastating Studio Blazes

by Jonathan Griffin May 5, 2016May 5, 2016

“My interest in participating in this book you’re about to make,” Brendan Fowler tells me, “is that I think it will be a document that would have been useful to me before I’d had my fire.”

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California Telephone Museum Destroyed by Fire

by Laura C. Mallonee September 18, 2015September 18, 2015

Last week, the United States lost one of its quirkiest historical museums to a wildfire in northern California.

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Williamsburg Warehouse Fire Leaves Artists in the Cold

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 11, 2015February 12, 2015

The fire that consumed a file storage warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront a week and a half ago has left artists in the building next door reeling.

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Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Damaged in Arson Fire

by Kyle Chayka April 21, 2011April 22, 2011

On April 19, Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia Basilica, designed by famed architect Antoni Gaudi, caught fire. A fire burned inside the structure for over 45 minutes before firefighters could put it out, destroying the church’s sacristy and badly damaging the crypt.

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