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Portraits from the Streets of the #BaltimoreUprising
These photographs are a small way of knowing my city in this difficult time.
Photo Essays
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Photographers of a Feather Flock to Audubon Competition
John James Audubon used to pin dead birds to the wall and quickly sketch them before they rotted. The resulting watercolors, a marriage of science and art, have influenced countless bird lovers since.
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Flipping (Virtually) Through a Book of Cubo-Futurist Poetry
Vasily Kamensky and the brothers Burliuk are associated with the Cubo-Futurist movement, which combined the concerns of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.
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The Familiar Pull of Alien Objects
Auxiliary Projects, formerly in Bushwick, has relocated to a new space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Embracing Old Age in New York
It was in hopes of casting a more loving and empathetic spotlight on the elderly that Patrícia Monteiro created her series Life Ever After.
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Humans Swallowed by the Extreme Geometry of Architecture
The work of Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar shows a striking mix of vibrant colors and stark architectural geometry.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum's New Building
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
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Liberating the Anonymous Figures in Old Master Paintings
In the past year, obscure figures from master paintings in museums around the world have been moonlighting as street art, thanks to a project called Outings.
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The Diverse Designs of "Do Not Disturb" Signs
As the son of a hotel manager, Edoardo Flores spent his childhood around objects many of us associate solely with the niceties of vacation.
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Arming Kabul's Girls with Skateboards
"She was wearing such a beautiful color, a sort of inky teal," photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson said of the Afghan girl with the carefully tied headscarf whose portrait she took last year.
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Capturing Interior and Outside Worlds in Just One Shot
Marja Pirilä has been fascinated with the camera obscura process since the 1980s, when she worked extensively with pinhole cameras and even built a few cabin-sized contraptions.