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This week: A conversation with curators Lisa Hostetler and Katherine Bussard, the authors of Color Rush. The book examines the 75 year period between 1907 and 1981,  when color photography took over the American visual landscape and was embraced by culture high and low. In addition to some of the earliest color photographs, Color Rush features advertising images, magazine spreads, photojournalism and art photography...

This week: A conversation with curators Lisa Hostetler and Katherine Bussard, the authors of Color Rush. The book examines the 75 year period between 1907 and 1981,  when color photography took over the American visual landscape and was embraced by culture high and low. In addition to some of the earliest color photographs, Color Rush features advertising images, magazine spreads, photojournalism and art photography...

A fake Vermeer painting by Han Van Meegeren, one of the famous art forgers featured in Jonathon Keats' book Forged. Jonathon Keats is an artist and experimental philosopher. In his book, Forged, he makes the case for why forgers are the greatest artists of our age. In his book, he looks at the history of art forgery, and tells the stories of six incredible and ambitious forgers who conned art experts, Nazi officials and entire nations into believing in their fake wares...

A fake Vermeer painting by Han Van Meegeren, one of the famous art forgers featured in Jonathon Keats' book Forged. Jonathon Keats is an artist and experimental philosopher. In his book, Forged, he makes the case for why forgers are the greatest artists of our age. In his book, he looks at the history of art forgery, and tells the stories of six incredible and ambitious forgers who conned art experts, Nazi officials and entire nations into believing in their fake wares...

In her book Studio Life writer and photographer Sarah Trigg documents the studio practices of artists across America, highlighting the spaces, objects, and rituals that inform the artistic process...

In her book Studio Life writer and photographer Sarah Trigg documents the studio practices of artists across America, highlighting the spaces, objects, and rituals that inform the artistic process...

Hank Hivnor has been working as a psychic, healer, and spiritual medium for over a decade. His clients include people from all walks of life, from lawyers to artists to celebrities. Hank conducts his readings in the living room of his apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is where I met up with him for a conversation about his work as a psychic healer. You can learn more about Hank, and inquire about his services, on his website...

Hank Hivnor has been working as a psychic, healer, and spiritual medium for over a decade. His clients include people from all walks of life, from lawyers to artists to celebrities. Hank conducts his readings in the living room of his apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is where I met up with him for a conversation about his work as a psychic healer. You can learn more about Hank, and inquire about his services, on his website...

Margaret Harrison, What’s That Long Red Limp Wrinkly Thing You’re Pulling On?, 2009, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 23 ⅞ x 18 ⅞ in. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc. New York.  © Margaret Harrison, photograph by Casey Dorobek This week we take a look at an exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum here in New York...

Margaret Harrison, What’s That Long Red Limp Wrinkly Thing You’re Pulling On?, 2009, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 23 ⅞ x 18 ⅞ in. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc. New York.  © Margaret Harrison, photograph by Casey Dorobek This week we take a look at an exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum here in New York...