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National Geographic Archives Cracked
The New York Times reveals that the National Geographic Society is entertaining the idea of opening up its archive of more than 11 million images to the fine-art market for the first time. Maura...
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Nudity? In an ART MUSEUM?
This is old news, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the hubub caused last week when a (live! nude! girl!) model posed for photographer Zach Hyman in the Met’s Arms and Armor gallery. Model...
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Prodigal Suns
I met Russell and Carl at their store, RePOP on Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, and then stumbled upon (or, kind of internet stalked them until finding more) this seemingly outdated, but wonderful...
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Installment 1: Katie Paterson
3 litres glacial meltwater, 3 litres silicon, 3 turntables [2007] Ice Recording by Katie Paterson “Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with...
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Laughing Kookaburras and Preserved Fetuses
Thank god the Museum of Animal Perspectives exists to post videos of what it looks like to walk through the woods from the top of a wolf’s head. But actually, this one is pretty good: Laughing...
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Maps!
Maps! Maps! Maps! We love the strangemaps blog, so coming across MAPCO (via the always-excellent Metafilter) really brightened up our Monday. The archive has high-res scans of historical maps, mostly...
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The International Dialects Of English Archive
Marry got married and wished us all a merry Christmas. Anyone from New York will tell you that the three M-words above are all pronounced differently. Yinz know what I’m talking about? IDEA – The...
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