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SLIDESHOW: Photos from ''Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal''

By ELSA DORFMAN | October 24, 2012

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Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history
'TAKI 183' SPAWNS PEN PALS, announced the headline in the July 21, 1971, New York Times .
Review: A. Cemal Ekin's 'Touching the History' at PC
In June 2009, A. Cemal Ekin, a marketing professor at Providence College, found himself in Istanbul, Turkey, atop scaffolding rising some 16 stories high inside the historic dome of Hagia Sophia.
Slideshow: ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Images from ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history
'TAKI 183' SPAWNS PEN PALS, announced the headline in the July 21, 1971, New York Times .
Review: A. Cemal Ekin's 'Touching the History' at PC
In June 2009, A. Cemal Ekin, a marketing professor at Providence College, found himself in Istanbul, Turkey, atop scaffolding rising some 16 stories high inside the historic dome of Hagia Sophia.
Slideshow: ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Images from ''Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
The proto-web utopian consciousness of Stan VanDerBeek
In April 1966, sheriff's deputies were hiding in bushes, peering into a mansion that had been turned into a headquarters and commune for LSD guru Timothy Leary and his pals at Millbrook, New York.
Slideshow: Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photos of Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 7, 2011, in connection with Thomas Page McBee's review of the exhibit .
Statewide exhibit series winds down; are photos next up?
The fall months of 2011 have much to share for contemporary art lovers.
A box, a picture, and a life revealed
Several years ago, photographer Scott Indermaur came up with a novel way to connect with his subjects: give them each a wooden box — six inches square and four inches deep — and ask them to fill it with objects that represent their beliefs.
Cultural studies in Newport
Jason Evans's bread and butter is commercial sports photography, shooting the likes of Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez, and tennis stars Roger Federer, Venus Williams, and Lindsay Davenport.
Review: '10 Most Endangered Properties'; plus, 'Chromophilia'
The most striking reminder of the threat to buildings featured on the Providence Preservation Society's "2010 Ten Most Endangered Properties" list is that Brownell & Field Company at 119 Harris Avenue, which the society highlighted because it feared it would be torn down, was approved for demolition on September 20 by the city's Historic District Commission.
Scott Alario, Angela Ruo, and David Wojnarowicz at AS220
Two years ago, when his daughter Elska was born, Scott Alario of Providence began making her the star of a series of photos he calls Our Fable . "I wanted to tell her stories. I wanted to pass something down to her," he says. "It's my attempt to build a folk tale for my daughter."
Mirrors and reflection at the ICA at MECA
It was long before Lacan that the mirror metaphor became the foundation of Western subjectivity.
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