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The Story of Cinema: Ghostbusters

Something strange in Hollywood

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Emptied Out

The coronavirus’s impact on Kabul’s day laborers foretells a global crisis

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The City Seen for the First Time

Life in New York City during the pandemic

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Excerpts from Midnight La Frontera

Combing “The Line” with a Hasselblad

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The Story of Cinema: Mae West

Goodness had nothing to do with it: the actress who reinvigorated Hollywood dialogue

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The Story of Cinema: Die Hard

Sure, it’s a Christmas movie

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The Story of Cinema: Moments in the Evolution of the Christmas Movie

While shepherds watched their flocks, the rest of us went to the pictures

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The Story of Cinema: Sam Peckinpah

The maverick director who had a wild bunch of ideas about motion

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The Story of Cinema: Thomas Edison

This new illustrated series explores some of the most iconic moments in the history of film. We begin with Thomas Edison, the inventor of the kinetograph

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The Lesser of Two Evils

The devil you don’t know: on Central American violence and the United States’ stance on the undocumented

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Roosevelt, Arlington National Cemetery

“Roosevelt, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA,” a photograph by Charlotte Dumas from her series Anima, which portrays the burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery. Dumas’s work is currently on view…

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Motherhood, 1938

Caption: "Motherhood, 1938," a photograph by Boris Ignatovich, whose work is on view this week at Nailya Alexander Gallery, in New York City. Credit: © Boris Ignatovich. Courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery,…

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Huisache Tree, Mexico

“Huisache Tree, Mexico,” a hand-colored photograph by Kate Breakey, whose work is on view through January 13 at Littlejohn Contemporary, in New York City

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Volunteer Army

On August 25, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in southern Texas. The Category 4 tropical cyclone caused widespread flooding in the greater Houston area, killing at least seventy people and driving…

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Lacs de Montagne

Lacs de Montagne, engraving, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, by Louise Bourgeois, which will be on view as part of the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of…

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Trumpeter Storm

Donald and Melania Trump go to Texas. 

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Capitol Punishment

An artist's rendition of a closed session of Congress.

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Rollercoaster

Rollercoaster, a collage created using oil-painted paper and vintage magazine clippings by Cheryl Molnar, whose work is on view this week at Wave Hill House, in the Bronx, New York. Courtesy the…

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Portrait

"Portrait," a photograph by Louise Lawler, whose retrospective WHY PICTURES NOW opens on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City © The artist. Courtesy the artist…

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Same Old, Same Old

Palestinian-Americans on the meaning of Donald Trump's presidency.

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Dressed to Kill

Jared Kushner goes to Iraq

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Ups and Downs

Pictured here is a thumbs-up paired with a frown. Read more...

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No Place Like Home

Illustrations depicting the lives of children living in Honduras, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Thousands of young Honduran refugees have fled the country’s chronic…

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Hawks and Doves

Scenes of family detention centers in the United States juxtaposed with illustrations of mourning doves migrating from Central America to Canada.

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The First Day

Scenes from Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington, D.C. All photographs by Philip Montgomery for Harper's Magazine.

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Cut and Fold

A family detention center playset

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Betty at Port Glasgow Town Hall Xmas Party

“Betty at Port Glasgow Town Hall Xmas Party,” a photograph by Mark Neville, from the monograph Mark Neville: Fancy Pictures, which was published last month by Steidl. Image © Mark…

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