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Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment
Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment

One self-taught artist’s journey from poverty to imaginative reinvention.

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Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant
Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant

“It turns out that once you start increasing the emotional energy of inanimate objects, an unpredictable chain reaction is set off.”

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The Naughty Nineties: A Victorian Pop-Up Book for Adults Only
The Naughty Nineties: A Victorian Pop-Up Book for Adults Only

A pull-tab time machine of risqué rites.

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PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet
PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet

How the digital age is changing the rhetoric and regimes of creative expression.

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How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day
How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day

What the world’s oldest profession has to do with light pollution.

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The Surprising Science of Why It’s Dark at Night, Animated
The Surprising Science of Why It’s Dark at Night, Animated

The glowing edge of space, or how the expansion of the universe is affecting the visible spectrum.

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Illustration (The Finest Occupation): An Animated Short Film
Illustration (The Finest Occupation): An Animated Short Film

A charming tongue-in-cheek testament to the art of taking joy in one’s work.

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Harry Clarke’s Haunting 1919 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories
Harry Clarke’s Haunting 1919 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories

Artful Edwardian-era erotica at the intersection of the whimsical and the macabre.

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5 Art and Design Projects Inspired by Literary Classics
5 Art and Design Projects Inspired by Literary Classics

From James Joyce to Jonah, or what the Brontë Sisters’ objectification of men has to do with Holden Caulfield.

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The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence
The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence

Lessons in love via post, or what Hemingway’s soft side has to do with Maurice Sendak’s early genius.

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