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Sum of the Arts
Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)
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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The Freedmen Fight for Tribal Citizenship in a New Documentary
OKLAHOMA CITY — "When you know what you really are and you haven't been embraced or acknowledged, it's horrible," says Kenneth Payton, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, in the documentary By Blood.
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The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
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The Early Color Films Left Out of the History of Cinema
Dorothy stepping into a Technicolor Oz in 1938 is so iconic that the decades of color film history before it are almost forgotten.
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A Tale of Cats and Boarding School, Written by a 10-Year-Old Queen Victoria
A red notebook in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle reveals a whimsical tale of a motherless girl exiled to boarding school, written in diligently neat script by a 10-year-old Queen Victoria.
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A Century of Indigenous Printmaking in North America
OKLAHOMA CITY — With nearly 100 prints from artists around North America, Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers at the University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones. Jr. Museum of Art (FJJMA) celebrates the medium's rise in the 20th century.
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Drawing the Vast and Invisible Dark Matter of Our Universe
The majority of our universe is energy and matter that we cannot see. The dark matter that overwhelms our earthly objects emits no light, and is therefore a nebulous thing to represent, something that is more an idea than a vision.
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Portraits from UK's Historic and Obscure Pagan Festivals
Over a thousand years since Christianity rose to dominance in the United Kingdom, pagan traditions continue to thrive.
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The Demolished Buddhas of Bamiyan Are Reborn as 3D Projections
This month the two sixth-century Buddhas of Bamiyan demolished in Afghanistan were temporarily returned to their towering places in the Bamiyan cliffs through 3D projection.
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A New Museum Encourages Us to Consider Death
NEW ORLEANS — No matter how strong your stomach for the macabre, there is likely some moment in the Museum of Death that will make it twist.
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Determined Scholar Reassembles a 2nd-Century Medical Manual
The 11-volume On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs by 2nd-century Greek physician Galen, with its ancient guidelines for pharmacology, was standard reading for centuries in the medical profession.
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How a Long-Lost Silent Film Helped Rescue a Forgotten Kiowa Tipi
OKLAHOMA CITY — In 1920, a distinctive tipi painted with horizontal stripes appeared in a silent film called Daughter of Dawn.