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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo
Darling of 19th-century American freak shows, Evatima Tardo remained serene as she withstood crucifixion and the bites of poisonous snakes. But she took the secret behind her abilities to her grave.
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Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago
Date: 1907-1951- Books
The broad spectrum : the art and science of conserving colored media on paper, October 5-9. 1999 : abstracts and conference program, the Art Institute of Chicago / edited by Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen.
Broad Spectrum : the Art and Science of Conserving Colored Media on Paper (1999 : Chicago, Ill.)Date: [2000]- Books
Chicago makes modern : how creative minds changed society / edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Jacquelynn Baas.
Date: 2012- Books
The art of the edge : European frames 1300-1900 / by Richard R. Brettell and Stephen Starling; with an essay by José Ortega y Gassett.
Brettell, Richard R.Date: 1986- Books
Taoism and the arts of China / Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman ; with essays by Patricia Ebrey [and others].
Little, Stephen, 1954-Date: [2000], ©2000