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Michael Rakowitz and the Afterlife of Destroyed Art
After terrorism and war erased centuries of Iraqi heritage, one artist began reconstructing the missing artifacts, creating ghostly stand-ins for…
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The Glass Temple Hidden Beneath Kyoto
Almost invisible from the surface of a 17th-century imperial temple complex, Kyoto’s Glass Temple hides a stark white chamber beneath…
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Outsiders as Drawn by an Outsider: Jo Brocklehurst and London After Dark
A reclusive artist hidden behind dark glasses, Jo Brocklehurst moved through London’s underground as both a witness and accomplice of…
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The Time a Japanese Noise Musician Destroyed a Venue With a Bulldozer
In 1985, Hanatarash frontman Yamantaka Eye drove an excavator into a Tokyo venue, turning a noise performance into an act…
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The Porsche 356 Bonsai: Preservation Without Restoration
An artist’s rare Porsche is stripped down to its bare essentials and reimagined through Japanese craft traditions and wabi-sabi philosophy,…
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Getting High with Shakespeare? It Might Have Happened
From clay pipe residues to cryptic sonnet lines, a long-running theory proposes that William Shakespeare experimented with mind-altering substances, raising…
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Behind the Beat: Inside the Homes Where Hip-Hop Is Made
Raph Rashid’s intimate photographs map the domestic environments where hip-hop producers build influential records, showing how constraint, routine, and personal…
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The Eccentric Soviet Composer Who Conducted a City: Arseny Avraamov and the Sound of a Future That Never Arrived
In September 1922, amid the fifth anniversary commemorations of the October Revolution in the capital of Azerbaijan, a little-known Russian…
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When Sci-Fi and Body Horror Found Advertising: Chris Cunningham’s Commercial Work
Before retreating from the spotlight, Chris Cunningham, the elusive director behind the music videos for Aphex Twin and Björk injected…
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The Australian Afterlife of Elvis Presley
Each year on August 16, Elvis fans gather at a Melbourne cemetery on the anniversary of his death, observing the…