Running a film in Christopher Nolan's preferred format is a specialized skill only a handful of projectionists left can claim — Chris Stanton profiles one of them, keeping 3 a.m. Imax showings of The Odyssey alive by hand.
Sean Tatol traces how the internet dismantled the subcultural scenes that once sustained avant-garde art criticism, and argues artists are better served drawing on the full historical archive than chasing novelty for its own sake.
When early humans first painted cave walls, they began to find out who they really were: our minds emerged from our images.
Icinori's wordless, cumulative picture book turns a simple "thank you," first to a chair, then to the rain, then to the whole improbable world, into a sweeping meditation on gratitude as a way of seeing.
Behind the nostalgia lies an uncomfortable truth: every record is made of oil.
A newly reissued 1982 book on the deaths at Jonestown reveals Shiva Naipaul, younger brother of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, as a fierce and unsettled moral reporter who saw the massacre as a political catastrophe rather than just a cult story.
A century-old, hand-illustrated study of prairie plant root systems — cross-sections showing how each species anchors itself, unseen, underground — becomes an unlikely meditation on the hidden architecture that holds up a life, and a character, from below.
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