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Come on a Journey to Masdar City, the World’s First Entirely Green City (in the Middle of the Desert)
In this interview 24 year-old French photographer Etienne Malapert introduces us to The City of Possibilities, a documentary photography series that brings us to Masdar City...
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Georgiana Houghton
Spirit Drawings review – awe-inspiring visions of a Victorian medium. By Jonathan Jones.
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
Du Bois’s charts focus on Georgia, tracing the routes of the slave trade to the Southern state, the value of black-owned property between 1875 and 1889, comparing occupations practiced by blacks and whites, and calculating the number of black students in different school courses (2 in business, 2,252 in industrial). By Allison Meier.
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Schrodinger’s Bird: The art of mind-bending physics
Schrodinger’s Bird brings the mesmerising concepts of quantum quirkiness to life in a new animation and exhibition. By Daniel Keane. (May 24, 2016)
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Remembering Slavery At Whitney
A Louisiana plantation that is an emotionally devastating museum of slavery. By Rod Dreher.
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The Texas Prison Museum Thrives on ‘Dark Tourism’
The gift shop offers shirts honoring the electric chair, “Home of Old Sparky,” and the museum's visitors get a “selectively edited” history of corrections. By Robyn Ross.
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What Do You Do When Your Family Was the Victim of CIA Mind-Control Experiments?
Visual artist Sarah-Anne Johnson's ongoing series explores how psychological torture impacted her matriarchal family. By Rea McNamara.
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Caught in the Act
A sampling of meticulous mug shots, along with about forty crime-related images from American tabloids, police files, security cameras, and photographers both anonymous and widely known, comprise the fascinating exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Michael Greenberg.
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The octopus that ruled London
For Victorians the octopus inspired terror and apocalyptic visions. By Justin Parkinson.
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Bohemians, Bauhaus and bionauts: the utopian dreams that became architectural nightmares
The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place.
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The Original Wagner
Martin Filler reviews the Morgan Library and Museum’s “Wagner’s Ring: Forging an Epic” exhibition.
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A peek into the National Parasite Collection’s most fascinating creepy-crawlies
You won't be able to see any of the 20 million or so creatures in the U.S. National Parasite Collection for a while because displays take a few years to create. In the meantime, here are some of the collection’s most fascinating creepy-crawlies. By Bonnie Berkowitz and Lazaro Gamio.
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The appearance of disappearance: the CIA’s secret black sites
Photographer Edmund Clark and journalist Crofton Black on the CIA’s covert detention facilities.
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Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island
Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.
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The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee
As an exhibition of notorious magician John Dee’s books continues, Philip Ball argues that he warrants a place in science’s history.
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Photography’s Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes... By Claire Voon.
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How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.
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To oblivion and beyond: art and science at the edge of consciousness
From William Blake’s vision of a soul leaving the body to Goshka Macuga’s creepy somnambulist, a new exhibition explores the mysteries of the mind – but are we any closer to finding the answers Descartes was seeking when he dissected a human brain more than 350 years ago?
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On (Not) Facing Britain’s Imperial Past at Tate Britain
“More broadly, looting committed by the British in India was so vast in scale that Powis Castle (in Wales) alone holds more Mughal artefacts ‘than are on display at any one place in India – even the National Museum in Delhi.’” By Louis Allday.
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Inside the Institutions for the Chernobyl Victims Forgotten by Society
In her photo series "The Invisible People of Belarus," photographer Jadwiga Bronte explored the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the people of Belarus, specifically those living in governmental institutions called "internats." These institutions are part asylum, part orphanage, and part hospice... By Tom Usher.
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