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Images at the End of the Frozen World
As the northeast of the United States has been submerged into a deep freeze, it seems appropriate to circulate these chilling images poised to go on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery next week.
Photo Essays
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Stock Photos of the Generic Art World
I don't remember which social media link triggered my descent into the rabbit hole of art-related stock imagery on 123RF, but after a little a while I realized that I had taken the blue pill.
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Edmund V. Gillon's Vision of 1970s and '80s New York
Sometimes it seems like troves of old photos of New York City turn up online every other day. But we still ogle them because ... well, what can we say? We heart old NYC porn.
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100-Year-Old Photographs of Doomed Expedition Discovered in Antarctica
Some photographs are best left to be discovered decades after they were first exposed. Much like the work of Vivian Maier — whose images were found years after she said her goodbyes — a recent finding of 22 undeveloped cellulose nitrate negatives from a 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition reignites our w
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The Geometric Perfection of Snowflakes
We all grew up hearing that each snowflake is unique, but Moscow-based Alexey Kljatov's macrophotography of snowflakes makes your realize the mind-blowing complexity of these crystalline marvels.
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How to Look at Ad Reinhardt's Cartoons
At David Zwirner gallery right now, you can see an entire room of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. It's the first chance to do so in New York since 1991. But you can also see work for which the artist is lesser known — in particular, his cartoons.
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Crows in the Dining Room and Other Messy Histories
In three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, something is amiss.
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Historic Mexican Mural Preserved in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — "You're taking photos of the screen." I turn around on the América Tropical Interpretive Center's viewing platform, perched above a waking Olvera Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
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5Pointz: The Morning After
This morning 5Pointz was largely deserted. There was hardly anyone in sight after a firestorm of online protest about the midnight buff that erased over a decade of graffiti and street art history in Long Island City.
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Seeking Humanity in the Barbarity of Brazil's Slave Past
At the University of São Paulo's Museum of Contemporary Art, a new exhibition is interrogating Brazil's legacy of slavery, disrupting a body of photography that was meant to normalize slavery.
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Excavating Architectural Photography
LOS ANGELES — A small room at the Getty Center in Los Angeles contains the entire history of architectural photography. In fewer than thirty photographs, In Focus: Architecture charts the timeline of the medium since it usurped drawing as the primary means of building documentation in the mid-ninete
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A Hair Museum Houses the Strands of Yesteryear
CHICAGO — Leila's Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri, bills itself as the only hair museum of its kind in the world. Located in the back of Leila's Independence College of Cosmetology, an unassuming storefront covered by a mirror-like material.