Books
Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees
Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.
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Art
Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations
For their second fair this year, the organizers of Spring/Break have set up shop in a multiuse development in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Decoding a Tiffany Glassmaker’s Secret Notebook
The small leather-bound book was used by Tiffany Studios glassmaker Leslie Nash to record recipes, designs, and personal notes on glass chemistry.
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The Body as a Field for Graphic Experiments
A show in Harlem takes on the human form with some surprising results.
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50 Years of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Tricks and Tech Art Innovations
Lynn Hershman Leeson's retrospective at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts reveals an artist who's introduced cutting-edge technologies to the art world and pulled stunts that surprise and unsettle.
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Della Robbia’s Gloriously Colorful Renaissance Sculptures
The National Gallery of Art explores the radical inventiveness of the della Robbia family, the clay and color masters of the Italian Renaissance.
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A Taste of the Complex Relationship between Chinese Food and Identity in America
An exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America explores the role food has played as a source of hardship and joy for Chinese people navigating this country's cultural landscape.
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Dispassionate Films of Crushed Cars and the Mirrored Moon
In his solo show at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kevin Jerome Everson offers an abstracted extension of the more human-centered work he's known for.
Books
Celestial Spheres, Smog Charts, and Radial Cartography in a New Book About Circles
Manuel Lima's The Book of Circles explores centuries of circular visual expression, from representations of infinity to maps of the stars.
Art
A 19th-Century Photographer of Scottish Industrialization Gets His First Survey
The Getty Center in Los Angeles opens the first survey of Thomas Annan, who photographed Glasgow during industrialization.
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In Search of Olga, Picasso’s Muse and First Wife
An exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum sheds new light on the woman mostly known through her husband’s gaze.
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Tracing the Rise of Conceptual Art in the UAE
This notion of playfulness is the crucial lens through which to view this survey exhibition of artists from the United Arab Emirates