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A quarter of a century ago, a former Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that it has still not…
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The Bulldozer Exhibition: When the Soviets Tried (and Failed) to Literally Crush an Art Show
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A Loud Minority? Investigating the Subculture of Audiophiles in Japan
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Longplayer: One Song, A Thousand Years, No Intermission
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One Free Ride: When Texas Prison Inmates Became Rodeo Cowboys
For more than fifty years, the Texas Prison Rodeo turned incarceration into public entertainment, drawing massive crowds to Huntsville to…
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In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…
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Paintings of Tattoo Guns from a Mexican Prison
Willingly spending two months in a Mexican prison and collaborating with the inmates, artist Scott Campbell built tattoo machines out…
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Ancient Roman Brutalism? This Tomb Defies Classical Expectations
Two thousand years before concrete brutalism, this ancient Roman tomb built to honor a former slave appears staggeringly modern, but…
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The Lost Art of Internet Game Guide ASCII Art
In which we rediscover the overlooked trend of ASCII art hidden inside fan-made video game guides from decades ago, created…
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The Belgrade Phantom: The (Mostly) True Story of Yugoslavia’s Most Legendary Car Chase
A stolen white Porsche 911 in 1970s Yugoslavia turned an ordinary car thief into an urban legend. For several nights,…
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When Google Earth Breaks, It Accidentally Becomes Art
New York–based artist Clement Valla has been steadily collecting images of the Earth, but not the Earth as we know…