Articles Written By Nicole Pasulka
TMN Editor Nicole Pasulka believes she could beat a lie detector. When she sits in a chair she almost never puts her feet on the floor. Even though she likes the internet a lot, she is convinced that people will always read magazines and she is secretly building one in her basement.
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Planes on Fire
At major airports around the world, aircraft often burst into flames, get buried in buildings, and are burnt black. But don’t worry, the fiery wreckage isn’t real, it’s intentional.
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Building the Emerald City
For baby doll Dorothy in Graham Rawle’s version of The Wizard of Oz, home is an elaborate set made from containers and Christmas decorations, populated by a ratty toy lion and a balsa-wood Scotty dog.
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Western Views
Though urbanites and smug “East-Coasters” often forget, the American wilderness is breathtaking. Jesse Chehak’s photos reveal the natural beauty in the country’s western hills, valleys, mountains, and streams.
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The Novice
How to Embalm a Body
Those who can’t do, learn. In this installment of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, we visited a funeral home in New Jersey to learn, hands-on, how to prepare someone for an eternal rest.
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Survival Paintings
Syrian painter Sabhan Adam’s work brings us face-to-face with creatures that might have crawled or hopped or slithered out of our dreams and onto the couch.
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Split Second
Barbara Probst’s diptych and triptych photos, taken at the same time from different cameras and points of view, offer multiple versions of a split second.
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In Hindsight
Cleaning Up
In May, things got messy. Really messy. Garbage everywhere, and cities and states struggled to figure out a place to stow the trash.
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Colliding Worlds
Kehinde Wiley’s paintings marry strange bedfellows: the National Gallery and New York City streets; sneakers and traditional Senegalese textiles.
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In Hindsight
More Than Meets the Eye
There is a distinct possibility that, within our lifetimes, robots will be everywhere—taking out the trash, day-tripping to Mars, winning the Nobel prize. During the past month, news about robots was frequently amazing and sometimes terrifying.
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Spit Rainbow
Alongside large, loud, clamoring installation and sculpture at the Whitney Biennial 2008 and the M.C.A. Chicago, Chicago-based photographer Melanie Schiff’s work is quietly and surprisingly magnetic.
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In Hindsight
Campaign Relief
In March, politicians around the world were campaigning and citizens were wincing. And just like here at home, impropriety was as prevalent as democracy.
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In Hindsight
Here’s the Beef
In February, the largest beef recall in history capped weeks of speculation about sick cows, then prompted many to wonder where all that meat went off to.