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Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation
Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation

Is genius a mosaic of “magpielike borrowings”?

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”

“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

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The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography
The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography

“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”

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Industrial Sublime: How New York City’s Bridges and Rivers Became a Muse of Modernism
Industrial Sublime: How New York City’s Bridges and Rivers Became a Muse of Modernism

How a city of contrasts inspired a generation of artists.

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Much Loved: Portraits of Beloved Childhood Teddies
Much Loved: Portraits of Beloved Childhood Teddies

What a forty-something bear might know about the meaning of life.

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Jeanette Winterson on the Value of Art to the Human Spirit
Jeanette Winterson on the Value of Art to the Human Spirit

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.”

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Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal
Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal

A menagerie of loveliness from some of the world’s greatest illustrators.

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Let’s Be Enemies: A Vintage Maurice Sendak Treasure
Let’s Be Enemies: A Vintage Maurice Sendak Treasure

A delightful lesson in reverse psychology from the greatest children’s illustrator of all time.

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John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings
John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings

Subtle critique of culture’s hypocrisies, wrapped in bewitching gibberish.

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The Life-Cycle of a Single Water Drop, in a Pop-Up Book Animated in Stop-Motion
The Life-Cycle of a Single Water Drop, in a Pop-Up Book Animated in Stop-Motion

Nature’s rhythms in masterful paper engineering.

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