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October 4, 2021 • View in browser
The 18th-century English Craze for One-Eyed Portraits
Lover’s Eyes features a richly illustrated cache of over 130 of these bejeweled, hand-painted treasures. | Lauren Moya Ford
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WOMEN IN ART
New Frida Kahlo Monograph Moves Beyond Individual Genius Narrative
Three art historians put the focus back on Kahlo’s artistic output. | Joanna Garcia Cheran
A Forgotten Female Flower Painter, Revived
One hundred years after Mary Hiester Reid’s death, Flower Diary recovers the elusive, overlooked artist’s life and work. | Lauren Moya Ford
Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain
The event was devised by artist Maria Lai and involved almost all of Ulassai’s 1,000 inhabitants and required nearly 17 miles of light blue denim ribbon. | Lauren Moya Ford
An Artist Excavates Her Family’s Pre-Holocaust Story
Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover. | Lauren Moya Ford
BORDERS, CITIES, STRUCTURES
The Disruptive Architecture of Border Walls
Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory. | Lauren Moya Ford
Mulholland Drive, Lushly Captured in Panorama
Photographer Karen Halverson captures the historic highway in slow, dense detail. | Lauren Moya Ford
A View of Oxford That Evades Its “Ethos of ‘Intellectualism’”
“Oxford has a complex social divide that tends to be ignored,” says photographer Arturo Soto. | Lauren Moya Ford
The Making of the Modern Latin American Metropolis
A new book explores the impact of rapid growth and industrialization on six major Latin American cities. | Lauren Moya Ford
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Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces. | Carrie Mae Weems
Tender Pictures Capture a Gender-confirming Journey
Photographer Fin Serck-Hanssen follows Hedda, a Norwegian in her early 20s, as she travels to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty. | Lauren Moya Ford
Graceful, Glistening Photos of Beachgoers on Ipanema
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno’s photos are an effervescent tribute to the iconic beach and the joy that it inspires. | Lauren Moya Ford
For Masahisa Fukase, Cats Were Much More Than Cute
Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats. | Lauren Moya Ford
