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15 OCTOBER, 2010

Trespass: A Brief History of Uncommissioned Street Art

An ambitious exploration of street art and the cultural context it lives in, from work by iconic artists like Banksy and Barry McGee to guerrilla activism around the world.

27 JULY, 2010

Mad Men on Wheels: Vintage Car Ads

Celebrating the Mad-Men-era nostalgia with an intersection of two of the era’s greatest cultural landmarks — cars and advertising — with five fantastic collections of vintage car ads.

17 NOVEMBER, 2009

Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made

An epic tome about the film that never happened, making Kubrick’s ambitious work on “Napoleon” available to the world for the first time as 10 books that live inside one giant volume.

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