Articles Tagged with #art
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Grace Happens
Tobacco farmers, churchgoers, and signs of rapid growth crop up like kudzu along North Carolina’s Highway 15-501, aka Tobacco Road.
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Salix Polaris
Portraits of scientists, explorers, and other “professional dreamers” who have found their way to the North Pole.
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We Shall
Masterful portraits from 10 years of photographing the west side of Chicago.
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
Game Face
Even someone who writes erotica for a living has to find ways to get through moments of shame.
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The Chinese Party!
A redacted version of Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book, illustrated with photographs of contemporary China, becomes a story for modern times.
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Paradise With a Limp
Cityscapes as you’ve never seen them before, built from luxury watches, sapphire pools, and other media prescriptions for the perfect life.
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Days of the Dead
Large-scale, hand-drilled portraits—where pixels are drilled from enormous blown-up photographs—of people killed in Mexico’s drug wars.
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Explainers
Who Goes There
The Heartbleed Bug exposed a well-known secret: Passwords suck. But that’s really nothing new—just ask the Romans. Explaining the password’s past and future.
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The Internet Is So Loud
Large-scale abstract paintings that recall networks, maps, and schematic diagrams—and with each subsequent viewing can become anything at all.
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The Arts Desk
Demolish Me
The present-day lust for ruins is nothing new. In fact, it’s nearly as old as any ruins themselves. From a flattened Louvre to Percy Bysshe Shelley, a journey to the dawn of ruin porn.
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The Unexpected
Chrissy Smoked
Twice a year, a group of friends gathered in a coal-mining pocket of Pennsylvania—friends in their twenties with fragile identities, who didn’t know yet what would happen.
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Frontcountry
Photographs of life inside a mining boom, from Montana to Texas, that’s producing a new, modern version of the Wild West.