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When Abstract Sculptures Have Familiar Faces
While looking at Sophie Hirsch's solo show Autokorrekt at Brooklyn's Signal gallery last weekend, I got an acute pang of pareidolia from two pieces made from molds of peeled pomegranate fruit.
Photo Essays
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The Many Faces of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators
When Greta Pratt photographed the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters in 2004, she plunked a chair down in a field for attendees to sit in and told them, “I want you to summon up your inner Lincoln.”
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Tracking John Wilkes Booth 150 Years After Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC 150 years ago today.
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The Suburban Dad Who Took the 1960s' Eeriest Photos
Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
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Revisiting an 18th-Century Illuminated Islamic Manuscript
One benefit of digitization is the return to the public, if only virtually, of religious and cultural artifacts often long hidden in the collections of institutions far from their regions of origin.
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Getting Intimate with Strangers’ Lost Notes
It's fun to imagine what an archaeologist of the future might make of the found notes — including shopping lists, personal reflections, and angry scribbles — currently on view at Stour Space Gallery in London.
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Infographics Size Up History's Tallest Buildings
In recent years, the skyscraper has come to be seen as the architectural symbol of globalization.
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The Nutty Squirrel That Dressed in Drag
"You can't be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit," Sarah Jessica Parker once quipped. Obviously she had never encountered Tommy Tucker.
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What the World Never Looked Like
During the late Renaissance, many gold-thirsty European explorers set sail on a quest to locate the fastest route to the Orient.
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The Beautiful Mercy of Corita Kent's Screenprints
Sister Corita Kent's tenacity as a feminist, civil rights activist, and antiwar demonstrator belied her prim black habit and fueled the silkscreens she made up until her death in 1986.
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An Atlas Gathers the Most Creative Contemporary Maps
Considering how long the earth's been around, you'd think it would have already been exhaustively charted. But in recent years, mapmaking has exploded.
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Looking Beyond the Myths of the Everglades
Curator Tim Wride was surprised when he first visited the Florida Everglades a few years ago.