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“Elemental Forms, Landscape no. 76”

“Elemental Forms, Landscape no. 76,” a wet plate collodion with gum sandarac varnish by Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer, whose work was on view last week as part of the group exhibition HackelBury: Twenty-one at HackelBury Fine Art, in London.
© The artist. Courtesy HackelBury Fine Art, London
in and in and up and down below (above) and in and in and up and down below (above), paintings by Steve Roden, whose work is on view through August 24 at Vielmetter Los Angeles.

in and in and up and down below (above) and in and in and up and down below (above)

in and in and up and down below (above) and in and in and up and down below (above), paintings by Steve Roden, whose work is on view through August 24 at Vielmetter Los Angeles.
Courtesy the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
“Parula Warbler, Parula Americana, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine,” a photograph by Eliot Porter, whose work is on view through August 24 as part of the exhibition The Empathy Lab at Jessica Silverman Gallery, in San Francisco.

“Parula Warbler, Parula Americana, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine”

“Parula Warbler, Parula Americana, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine,” a photograph by Eliot Porter, whose work is on view through August 24 as part of the exhibition The Empathy Lab at Jessica Silverman Gallery, in San Francisco.
© The artist. Courtesy Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico. © 1990, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Bequest of Eliot Porter.

As Far as I Can See From Here II

As Far as I Can See From Here II, a painting by James Lavadour, whose work is on view through August 31 at PDX Contemporary Art, in Portland, Oregon.
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“Figures on the Pier, Positano, Italy, 2018”

“Figures on the Pier, Positano, Italy, 2018,” a photograph by Allen Frame, whose work is on view through August 16, at Gitterman Gallery, in New York City.
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“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”

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[Findings] Cetologists found that female humpback whales seek out their girlfriends summer after summer.
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[Findings] American herpetologists traveled to a restaurant in Vietnam to examine a previously undescribed race of all-female lizards but arrived to find that a “crazy guy had gotten drunk and served them all to his customers.”
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[Findings] A loggerhead turtle in a Kobe aquarium at last achieved swimming success with her twenty-seventh set of prosthetic fins. “When her children hatch,” said the aquarium’s director, “well, I just feel that would make all the trauma in her life worthwhile.”
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