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Helvetica cookie cutters
Copyright-free Victorian novel etexts, including Dickens, Eliot, Collins, Hardy, James, Trollope
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Unknown/Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Joakim Olsson
Denise Grunstein
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Harmen de Hoop
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Mrs. Delany and her circle: exhibition catalogue for Mary Delaney’s 18th century botanical collages
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Ambrosius Bosschaert
Akira Isogawa
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and … Frieze looks back at architecture in 2009 and forward to 2010
Experimental filmmaker Len Lye’s 1939 short, “Swinging the Lambeth Walk”
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Unhappy hipsters: All’s not well in the house of Dwell
The benefits of boredom–and why David Foster Wallace’s last novel will test its limits
“Anxiety,” delish pop-punk from Melbourne’s Eddy Current Suppression Ring
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Anderson & Lauth
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Jon Klassen & Marc Craste’s animated BBC Winter Olympics spot
Chroma: design, architecture and art in color
Japanese convenience stores: a photo essay by Joe Morgan-Payler
Taller flora
The north circular
Chicagowillie
and … Several ways with broiled grapefruit
Why are films about food popular?
Genius concept: The little black dress shop
Sandra Juto
Pleasure principle
Herbert Pfostl
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Old-timey banjo player Frank Fairfield’s Daytrotter session
Why are there so many literary prizes?
