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Sounds

X‑Rays You Can Hear: Soviet Bootleg Music’s Non-Clinical Birth, Death, and Rebirth

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July 15, 2025

During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…

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In a Berlin Bunker, Asian Antiquities Converge with Contemporary Art at the Feuerle Collection

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June 18, 2025

Art collector Désiré Feuerle has spent a lifetime dissolving the boundaries between ancient and contemporary Asian art. Having transformed an…

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Visions

The Man Who Created a Record Store That Only Buys One Album: Rutherford Chang’s White Album Project

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June 17, 2025

In an era when digital algorithms can summon nearly any song on demand, the late Rutherford Chang’s obsession with a…

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The Most Experimental Renaissance Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

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February 8, 2025

Across the history of Renaissance Art, the mysterious Dutch printmaker Hercules Seghers is perhaps the most innovative–and relatively unknown.