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When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts

by Eliza Levinson June 25, 2019November 4, 2019

As Notre-Dame burned, there was controversy over people responding by sharing selfies they’d taken at the cathedral. But there may be public value in this practice.

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The Unexpected Art of Making Contact on the Subway

by Christina McCausland April 3, 2019April 3, 2019

On the subway, where so many norms revolve around not touching each other in certain ways, these moments of mutual touch are a kind of breach, a suggestion of real contact. @subwayhands explores that space.

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The Alarming Homogeneity of Instagram Travel Photos

by Monica Uszerowicz September 24, 2018October 4, 2021

Attack of the Instagram clones: by collaging together virtually indistinguishable travel photos from unrelated Instagram accounts, “Insta Repeat” reveals how social media undermines originality.

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The New York Public Library Lets You Read a Novel on Instagram

by Jasmine Weber August 22, 2018August 22, 2018

A new initiative launches handheld reading for classic literature.

Cindy Sherman, "Oops" (2017), on a float (courtesy the artist, +Pool, and Third Drawer Down)
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Cindy Sherman Turns Her Instagram into an Inflatable Pool Float

by Benjamin Sutton May 17, 2018August 14, 2018

The smartphone-shaped float features one of the artist’s distinctive, distorted selfies.

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Artist Nan Goldin Joined Instagram

by Benjamin Sutton December 25, 2017December 26, 2017

The famed photographer recently joined the image-centric social network, posting a mix of her well-known photos and new images.

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The World’s Most Instagrammed Museums, from the Louvre to the Museum of Ice Cream

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 29, 2017November 29, 2017

According to Instagram’s own statistics, the Louvre was the seventh-most ‘grammed place in the world and topped the museum list yet again.

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Why I “Like” but Don’t Love Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Photos

by Paddy Johnson August 7, 2017August 8, 2017

Other critics responded rapturously after the art star made her Instagram account public, but their nearly unanimous praise is misplaced.

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The Accidental Social Media Artist Who Can’t Stop Falling

by Philippa Snow December 22, 2016

Paige Ginn films herself not only in a state of collapse, but also while getting there.

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The World’s 25 Most Instagrammed Museums

by Claire Voon December 9, 2016

Spoiler alert (not really): art museums dominate the list, and the Louvre takes the number-one spot.

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Photographers Win Grant for Documenting Underrepresented Communities on Instagram

by Carey Dunne September 19, 2016September 19, 2016

Documentary photographer Ronny Sen sees the region of Jharia, India, which is near his hometown, as a vision of “doomsday.”

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The Rose-Washed Past: Ron Haviv’s ‘Lost Rolls’

by Colin Dickey February 7, 2016February 29, 2016

I’ve long been fascinated by the various filters for Instagram and other digital camera apps whose names are simply years: 1969, 1972, 1977.

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