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Posted inBooks

How to Crack the Catholic Code of the Old Masters

by Daniel Larkin December 27, 2022February 7, 2023

Suzanna Ivanič’s new book Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism is an essential primer on how Catholicism intersects with art history.

Posted inNews

Visual Propaganda of Hate Groups Is on the Rise in America

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

While their numbers decline, hate and anti-government groups have found their way into American mainstream politics, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Posted inOpinion

How Our Visual Culture of Credibility is Being Manipulated

by Charlotte Kent September 8, 2021September 8, 2021

The extreme views presented by orators are veiled by their adoption of design aesthetics typical of newscasters.

Posted inArt

Two Artists Attempt to Collaborate Across Continents, Travel Bans and All

Avatar photo by Golnar Yarmohammad Touski March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

With “The Other Apartment,” a joint project by Jon Rubin and Sohrab Kashani, located in both Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iranians and Americans can attend events and experience the space together, in real time.

Posted inFilm

Satoshi Kon’s Sensitive Story of People on the Margins of Society

Avatar photo by Ren Scateni March 10, 2020September 11, 2020

Recently restored and back in theaters, the 2003 anime film Tokyo Godfathers looks tenderly at street dwellers, who are often ignored in art and the media.

Posted inArt

The Strange Reign of Raccoons Online

by Justine Smith March 6, 2020March 5, 2020

The raccoon is one of the most popular animals on social media. But the human obsession with the scavengers predates the internet by thousands of years.

Posted inArt

As Local Media Dies, Community Meme Pages Keep the Spirits of Cities Alive

by Justine Smith March 5, 2020March 5, 2020

Online spaces embody Aldo Rossi’s view of the city as “the collective memory of its people.”

Posted inBooks

An Interview with Lynne Tillman

Avatar photo by Nicole Miller March 24, 2018October 15, 2022

The novelist and critic discusses her new book of fiction — Men and Apparitions.

Posted inArt

The Rise of the 20th-Century Yearbook Smile

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 11, 2015December 21, 2015

With their standard formats and widespread availability, high school yearbooks represent a historical data set of 20th-century style. They also capture how our tendency to smile in photographs has intensified over time.

Posted inNews

New App Lets You Un-Instagram (aka “Normalize”) Your Photos

by Jillian Steinhauer August 20, 2012

A year ago, Fast Company checked in on Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app, nine months after its launch and called its growth “staggering.” That was before Facebook acquired it, this past April, and then, in May, Instagram hit the 50 million users mark. The lesson here? People really love taking and sharing pictures. And they also love filtering them.

Posted inOpinion

Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1B

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 9, 2012April 15, 2012

Today, Facebook announced that it has acquired the hugely popular smartphone photo-sharing app, Instagram, and in the process further consolidating its position as the biggest visual archive in the world.

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