Pataphysical Metadata and Alfred Jarry’s Web of Influence
Expanding connections that begin with one eccentric.
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Digitized Images by Wim Swaan Available as Open Content
Newly digitized photos by Wim Swaan are free to download and use.
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A Curio of the Late-20th-Century New York Arts Scene
A poster by Rea Tajiri signifies an important time in the video artist’s career
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The Correspondence of Art-World Power Couple Lawrence Alloway and Sylvia Sleigh
Newly digitized letters reveal a romantic and intellectual love affair.
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Why Illustrate a Cookbook?
A Renaissance celeb chef tells all.
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The Original Turducken
What’s going on here?
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A Smartly Costumed Soldier and His Fierce Cat
An extraordinary portrait of a Turkish soldier and his feline sidekick.
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Celebrating Sugar in “The Edible Monument”
Talking sugar with the chief curator of the Getty Research Institute.
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Prototyping a Digital Publication for Scholars
How do you design an entirely new breed of digital publication? Test, revise, test, revise…
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A Sugar Sculpture in Technicolor
A fantastic episode from the history of edible propaganda.
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Hand-Colored Print Depicts the Land of Cockaigne, Mythical World of Self-Indulgence
“Here you only worry about being happy!”
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The Ruins of Palmyra, Captured in Vintage Photographs
A glimpse at Syria and Lebanon in the mid-1800s.
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