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Real Estate
Can You Build a House Out of Paper? Shigeru Ban Says Yes.
A new version of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s Paper Log House is on display at the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.
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Magazine
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler ora file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a ...
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Arts
Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler ora file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a ...
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World
With Brute Force and Steel, This Artist Creates Works of Ephemeral Beauty
Art of Craft is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art. On a summer day in 2018, Blanka Amezkua arrived in San Salvador Huixcolotla. The southeastern Mexican town is best known as the birthplace of papel picado — intricately ...
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World
A Queer Chinese Artist Finds Liberation Through Folk Art
Drawing from his life in rural China, the gay artist known as Xiyadie uses a folk art form to tell his coming out story. His show is coming to the Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong.
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Arts
Paper Bag Players Celebrate 65 Years of Making Magic Out of the Ordinary
The children’s theater company will bring its latest production, “It’s a Marvelous Paper Bag World!,” to stages in New York this spring.
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Magazine
How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom
A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.
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World
The Problems Only Start With Plagiarism
Plagiarism is perhaps the mildest academic sin, as well as the easiest to detect. There are innumerable cases of more serious forms of misconduct — such as the falsification and fabrication of data — that have stained the reputations of universities ...
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World
Our Semicolons, Ourselves
When I go through students’ papers and flag the misplaced modifiers, note the clichés or explain that a 15-sentence paragraph is less approachable than a five-sentence one, I sometimes ask myself a question that the students who get those papers back ...
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World
Excerpts From Dr. Claudine Gay’s Work
Here are five examples of work by President Claudine Gay of Harvard that have been spotlighted by critics who have accused her of plagiarism.