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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 5, 2026

Two Hundred Years of Photography, Counted From a Seventy-Two-Hour Exposure

Fisheye and France's Ministry of Culture have put out a 224-page special edition opening a thirteen-month bicentennial programme. Historian Dominique de Font-Réaulx writes on Niépce's 1827 view from Le Gras, and thirty original AFP press prints from 1945 to 1995 go up on Paris Metro platforms until January.

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Fisheye, 200 ans de photographie
Fisheye, 200 ans de photographie
Design
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  2. One Front Door, Two Half-Flights, Three Households

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  3. The Client Asked for a Pink Kitchen and a Yellow Sofa

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  4. Apartments Built at 1.9, 3.1 and 4.5 Square Metres, Sized to What a 25-Year-Old Can Afford

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Arts & Culture
  1. The Bayeux Tapestry Will Hang Flat for the First Time in Nearly a Thousand Years

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  2. She Paints on Rubble Salvaged From a Demolished London Estate

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  3. Georgia O'Keeffe's Buildings, Shown Without the Flowers

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  4. Sixteen Nordic Artists, Mostly Working From Discarded Garments

    Sixteen Nordic Artists, Mostly Working From Discarded Garments

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Sound
  1. Jay-Z Played the Deep Cuts, Including One Unheard in Twenty Years

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  2. Rick Rubin Cut Forty-Four Songs Down to Fourteen for Toxicity

    Metal Injection·Sep 4

  3. The Cure Found Comfort in Camp on The Head on the Door

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  4. A Norfolk Rave With a Geodesic Dome and a Pub Built From Scratch

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Collecting
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  2. Plywood Darkens Unevenly, and It Cannot Be Patched

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  3. Graphite From Japan, Lacquer in Ten Coats, Assembled in Stockton

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  4. Eight Bronze Tiers and Eighty-Eight Oak Layers for a Whisky Distilled in 1931

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Document
  1. Victor Turner Named the People Who Live Between Categories

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  2. The Brain Counts Events, Not Seconds

    Noema Magazine·Sep 3

  3. A Hundred Tons of Marble Staging Washington as a Ruin

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  4. Renoir Painted Them as Children. Vichy Sent One to Auschwitz.

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Film
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  2. In 1904 a Photograph Travelled From Munich to Nuremberg by Wire

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  3. Robert Pattinson Plays Chris Hansen, and the Show's Real Cost Surfaces

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