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The 25th issue of the award-winning arts annual includes artist's projects by Noriko Ambe, Paolo Arao, Tina Barney, John Edmonds, Elizabeth Ferry and Anish Kapoor; Francine Prose's reflections on an early Renaissance painting at the Metropolitan Museum (incorporating a poem by Zbigniew Herbert); brand-new installments of the regular series "Guarded Opinions," "Modern Artifacts" and "Public Access" (featuring never-before-seen items from the Vladimir Nabokov papers in the New York Public Library's esteemed Berg Collection); materials reproduced in facsimile from the Ludlow Santo Domingo collection of psychedelia at Harvard University; lyrics and artworks by Lonnie Holley; and an audio compilation featuring musicians such as Andrew Silberman (The Antlers), Will Oldham and Katie von Schleicher, who have created a series of new songs inspired by jokes.… (more)