Articles by prismatic
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Terrence Malick's Disciples (yalereview.org)

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A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life (washingtonpost.com)

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Medieval Moons (aeon.co)

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Why does the Salish Sea glow in the dark? (atlasobscura.com)

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Superficial Intelligence: Tech Parenting (mozillafoundation.org)

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'Turncoat' by Dennis Sewell Review (historytoday.com)

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Marble Springs (1993) (eastgate.com)

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Paranormal Politics: The Haunting of Epworth Rectory (historytoday.com)

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Gloomth (lrb.co.uk)

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Early Retirement: What happens when athletes in their prime decide to bow out? (victoryjournal.substack.com)

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Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Do You Know What I Know? (newyorker.com)

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Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) (publicdomainreview.org)

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If the Gumshoe Fits: The Thomas Pynchon Experience (bookforum.com)

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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (Ca. 1625–1850) (publicdomainreview.org)

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What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die? (nytimes.com)

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Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-Two Years (newyorker.com)

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Redford and Newman: A Screen Partnership That Defined an Era (nytimes.com)

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The cost of performing childhood for your parent's art (nytimes.com)

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The Cat's Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Ivan Aivazovsky's Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Color of the Future: A history of blue (hopefulmons.com)

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The Color of the Future: A history of blue (hopefulmons.com)

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A24's Empire of Auteurs (newyorker.com)

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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art (mitpress.mit.edu)

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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules (aeon.co)

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Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography (publicbooks.org)

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Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura (publicdomainreview.org)

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Fakes, Nazis, and Fake Nazis (airmail.news)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed (washingtonpost.com)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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Remembrance of Scents Past (newyorker.com)

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The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer's Kreuzigung (1920) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Edward Burra's tour of the 20th century (newstatesman.com)

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Encounters with Reality on Christine Rosen's the Extinction of Experience (thepointmag.com)

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Could the Semicolon Die Out? (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Renegade Richard Foreman (yalereview.org)

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Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School (publicdomainreview.org)

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Do You See Craters or Bumps on the Moon's Surface? (nytimes.com)

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How Should We Think About the Renaissance? (chronicle.com)

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Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film? (newyorker.com)

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How Should We Think About the Renaissance? (chronicle.com)

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Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages (historytoday.com)

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Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages (historytoday.com)

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Font Activations: A Note on the Type (robhorning.substack.com)

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Anatomy of a $70M Auction Flop (nytimes.com)

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The Ecstatic Swoon (aeon.co)

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The second birth of JMW Turner (newstatesman.com)

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Our idea of happiness as gotten shallow (nytimes.com)

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Art as Experience (wikipedia.org)

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Van Gogh's Loneliness (newcriterion.com)

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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (wikipedia.org)

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Doing Nothing Is Everything (theamericanscholar.org)

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Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism (publicdomainreview.org)

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'We Have Ceased to See the Purpose' Review: Solzhenitsyn Against Liberty (wsj.com)

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A Swirl of Intrigue Surrounds Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint's Newfound Status (smithsonianmag.com)

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Andy Warhol's Sacraments (firstthings.com)

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Long-Lost Klimt Portrays African Prince (nytimes.com)

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Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s) (publicdomainreview.org)

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What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Henri Michaux review – the delirious artist who took mescaline (theguardian.com)

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Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100) (publicdomainreview.org)

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La Vie En Rose (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Study on the Prohibition of the Purple Costumes in Ancient China (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)

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Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)

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The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Blinkenlights (wikipedia.org)

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An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)

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Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia's 391 Review (1917–1924) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Heroic Industry of the Brothers Grimm (hudsonreview.com)

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Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Drawing Animals with Margaret Mead (psychologytoday.com)

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A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs (smithsonianmag.com)

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Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic (historytoday.com)

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Light Devoured: From surrogate kings to sun shields (cabinetmagazine.org)

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Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani's Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855) (publicdomainreview.org)

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William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (2018) (neh.gov)

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The Melting Pot Symphony of Chinese American Congee (historians.org)

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Looking at Art Will Never Be the Same Again (thenation.com)

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Take the 'Death Stairs' If You Dare (nytimes.com)

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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018) (theparisreview.org)

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Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896) (publicdomainreview.org)

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19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums (smithsonianmag.com)

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Navigating Parenthood and GenAI (royapakzad.substack.com)

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Cadillac Ranch over 50 years is 'both interesting and odd' to Ant Farm artist (amarillo.com)

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Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Mad Files (tabletmag.com)

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A Distant Planet May Host a Moon That's Spewing a Volcanic Cloud (nytimes.com)

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A Man and the Crowd (1928) (publicdomainreview.org)

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How Did the First World War Change the Arts? (historytoday.com)

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Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell (theatlantic.com)

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Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (Ca. 1100) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Nuance and Nuisance: On the Village Voice (harpers.org)

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The Dome of Heaven: John Barth's Escape from Nihilism (thepointmag.com)

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Edwin D. Babbitt's Principles of Light and Color (1878) (publicdomainreview.org)

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The Many Lives of James Lovelock (theguardian.com)