Kim Beil

Lecturer, Stanford University

Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University. She has written about art and visual culture for The Atlantic, The Believer and Cabinet, among other publications, and is the author of Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography (2020).

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Vintage-looking black and white photo of two girls standing in front of grocery shelves and an old-fashioned scale; one girl has eyes closed and the other smiles.

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In pursuit of the hole

Dig into the voids, pin-pricks and cut-outs of art and history, and those absences speak volumes about what’s been missed

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