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Out of His Element

  • July 28, 2022

When European commentators in the 1830s admired the brilliantly colored, life-size prints in John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, they found the backgrounds almost as...

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That August

  • July 28, 2022

We leave town on and offand off and on. The plantsseem hardier for it, as if they tooneeded space. The compulsoriness ofour uninterrupted company sucksthe air...

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Paris Transformed

  • July 28, 2022

Every great city is a constant act of reinvention. Fashionable new structures rise over the wreckage of unfashionable older ones. Neighborhoods change character and function. Populations...