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“They offered to give me things to the point of embarrassment, but not to sell them,” Allen Hendershott Eaton wrote of the artworks, furniture, and photographs gifted him by Japanese American internees.
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John Wilkes Booth was 26 years old when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC 150 years ago today.
Art
Save for his unusual name, Ralph Eugene Meatyard had all the trappings of an ordinary man.
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They were removing "signs of idolatry." That's what an ISIS fighter said in a video published online Saturday.
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It's fun to imagine what an archaeologist of the future might make of the found notes — including shopping lists, personal reflections, and angry scribbles — currently on view at Stour Space Gallery in London.
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In recent years, the skyscraper has come to be seen as the architectural symbol of globalization.
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Should countries set a deadline for restitution claims brought by descendants of Holocaust victims whose art was looted by the Nazis?
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"The history of art commissions is the history of wealthy people paying artists to make something about wealthy people," Electric Objects co-founder Jake Levine says.
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With their long shadows and lonely colonnades, Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings possess a strange allure. I've always wondered what it would be like to wander through them.
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Last Friday, Malaysia officially charged the 52-year-old cartoonist Zunar with nine counts of sedition — a charge that could send him to jail for up to 43 years.
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During the late Renaissance, many gold-thirsty European explorers set sail on a quest to locate the fastest route to the Orient.
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Sister Corita Kent's tenacity as a feminist, civil rights activist, and antiwar demonstrator belied her prim black habit and fueled the silkscreens she made up until her death in 1986.