Articles by prismatic
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How art invented humanity (aeon.co)

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Designing with Code (justinjay.wang)

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Art Invented Humanity (aeon.co)

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Starveling Rabblement (lrb.co.uk)

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Twain Town, USA (theamericanscholar.org)

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Twain Town, USA (theamericanscholar.org)

2

Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers (newyorker.com)

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Where the Light Falls: Who Was Johannes Vermeer? (harpers.org)

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Jackie Gleason's Paranormal Activity (newyorker.com)

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Gordon Wood's Proust (thelampmagazine.com)

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Why are there so many canines in fine art? (theatlantic.com)

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On the nature of autobiographical memory (theamericanscholar.org)

2

What Did the Hudson River School Painters See? (nytimes.com)

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The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877) (publicdomainreview.org)

5

How Much of the Internet Is AI Slop? (statsignificant.com)

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Octonous Open Beta: What We've Learned and Where We're Going (blog.mozilla.ai)

3

Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality (theparisreview.org)

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Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)

5

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings (vulture.com)

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The Soviet Network (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) (publicdomainreview.org)

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'True Color' Review: Not-So-Black-and-White (wsj.com)

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The loneliness of A Room of One’s Own (newrepublic.com)

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The Loneliness of a Room of One's Own (newrepublic.com)

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Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention (harpers.org)

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Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces (publicdomainreview.org)

5

Make Nothing That Isn't Beautiful (thepointmag.com)

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Back to Bellevue (theamericanscholar.org)

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The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock (washingtonpost.com)

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Where Have All the Pithiatics Gone? (sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

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Varnish and Virtue (literaryreview.co.uk)

3

Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries (lareviewofbooks.org)

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The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II (airmail.news)

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Terrence Malick's Disciples (yalereview.org)

2

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

2

Medieval Moons (aeon.co)

3

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

3

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)

3

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

2

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

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

3

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)

6

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)

2

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)

2

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)

11

A24's Empire of Auteurs (newyorker.com)

18

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

9

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

2

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)

2

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)

3

The Geological Sublime (harpers.org)

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Remembrance of Scents Past (newyorker.com)

2

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)

8

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)

18

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)

2

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)

2

The Ecstatic Swoon (aeon.co)

3

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)

2

'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)