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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