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Ding Dong, Death Calling: 1920s Tombstone Salesman Paintings
Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is showing a grid of 16 tombstone paintings created in 1929 by one E.B. Roberts in English, Indiana, for this itinerant trade.
Allison Meier
Allison C. Meier is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.
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Digging Through Victorian Trash for Bone Toothbrushes and Broken Dolls
"Rubbish doesn't lie," explained Tom Licence, a senior lecturer in history at England's University of East Anglia who is behind What the Victorians Threw Away.
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Shakespeare's Only Handwritten Manuscript Contains a Message of Empathy for Migrants
Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare's handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in England.
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A New Tool Maps the NYC Landmarks Near You
Last month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to recommend 30 of the sites from its backlog of nearly 100 as potential landmarks.
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Contemporary and Historic Ledger Art Joined in a Seamless Native Narrative
Too often museums exhibit indigenous art of the United States as artifacts made by ghosts, even though many of these traditions are still inspiring contemporary creators.
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Photographs of Crumbling Asylums, Where Architecture Was Designed to Cure
Last October, the domed 19th-century building that stood as the centerpiece to New Jersey's Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was demolished.
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Conservators Work to Open the Forbidden City’s Secret Garden to the Public
When China's last emperor departed Beijing's Forbidden City in 1924, the imperial palace was shuttered, and along with it, an 18th-century garden.
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Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
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A Digital Story Leads You Through Italy's WWII Resistance
To mark the 70th anniversary of Italy's 1945 liberation from fascism, the Milan-based duo We Are Müesli developed an interactive story based on the country's 20 months of partisan resistance.
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Scientists Identify the Fungi Clouding Leonardo's Self-Portrait
A red chalk sketch from around 1512 CE, long believed to be a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, has a glowering, bearded man's face emerging from a swarm of brown spots. Kept safely in the vaults of the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, the portrait's power, despite the imperfections, has even gained rum
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Photographing Biodiversity, One Cubic Foot at a Time
WASHINGTON, DC — Much of science is observation, being attuned to what others overlook.
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Preserving South Carolina’s Greek Revival Ruins with 3D Modeling
Sheldon Church would be at home in a Caspar David Friedrich painting, its Greek Temple–style ruins crumbling in the shadows of moss-laden oaks like an apparition of Romanticism.