Art Heist: Pushkin Editions Stolen From European Libraries
Alexander Pushkin, watercolor attributed to S. G. Chirikov, 1810. Source: Central Museum of A. S. Pushkin / Wikimedia Commons.
A Paris trial is set to examine the theft of more than 170 rare Russian books, including early Pushkin editions, from libraries across Europe.
Bob Loblaw
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Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer
Mackintosh’s low-back armchair for Kate Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms combines Arts & Crafts construction, Scottish vernacular influence, and sculptural modernity in a design made to shape the social space... 
Design Objects.
Fun City Editions: The Joy of Rescuing Forgotten Films
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
A conversation with Jonathan Hertzberg on rescuing overlooked films, physical media, and the second lives of great neglected movies.
Jonathan Hertzberg 
John White
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Sontag Was a Bridge Between Old New York and the New
Joel Meyerowitz, New York City, 1969.
Sontag as a bridge between old New York criticism and the theory-driven culture that followed.Bob Loblaw
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Dafoe Seeks Amateur Spirit Via the Old Tale
Piero di Cosimo, Perseus Freeing Andromeda, c. 1510–1515. Oil on panel, Uffizi Galleries, Florence. A Renaissance myth staged like popular theater, with monster, crowd, and wonder folded into the kind of pre-modern storytelling Dafoe’s program brings back into view.
Dafoe’s Biennale program looks at theater’s origins.
Pina Lomb
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Madina Tulakova
Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat
Marguerite de Ponty
Clara MacMeekin
John Mhiripiri
Kevin Bone
Chris Woodford
Kamel Mennour
Massimiliano Pelletti
Cecilia Knapp
Simona Alberi
Cici Thompson
Richard Aubern
Tasmin Blake
Dalia Morgan
Kostas Murkudis
Rupert Taylor
Editors
Franco Maria Ricci
Alexandra Kleeman
Melissa Mesku
Chloe Caldwell