The discovery in the Kalahari Desert disrupts the prevailing notion that human origins were linked to coastal environments.
Author Archives: Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She writes about art and culture, online and in print, for Hyperallergic, Art in America, Art in
Print, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. She was named a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and participated in the 2015 Art Writing Workshop. She is a regular guest lecturer/visiting critic at University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, College for Creative Studies, Wayne State University, and Oakland University, and was a guest speaker, visiting critic, and juror for the undergraduate show at Penn State University in 2018. She served as a mentor in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program in 2018. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research in the state of contemporary art in redeveloping cities, with special focus and regard for Detroit. sarahrosesharp.com
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Statue of Nisqually Environmentalist and Tribal Leader Will Represent Washington at US Capitol
Billy Frank Jr. spent his life examining and advocating on behalf of treaty rights and environmental protections.
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Raw Portraits of UK Village Win Top Prize at Sony World Photography Awards
Craig Easton collaborated with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz to challenge depictions of a small community in Lancashire as “the most segregated in Britain.”
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See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France
Researchers believe the Bronze Age stone bears a crude map of an area in France’s Brittany region.
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Experience a Scottish Concert as It Would Have Sounded in 1512
Researchers reproduced the acoustics of a defunct chapel at Linlithgow Palace during an Easter Mass performance.
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Mississippi Returns Stolen Remains of Chickasaw People in States Largest Repatriation
It is the largest return of stolen Native American antiquities in the state’s history.
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Ancient Antikythera Mechanism, the “World’s First Computer,” Is Reconstructed
The device, which is thought to predict planets’ movement, was found in the sea in 1901, salvaged from a wrecked merchant ship.
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Mural of Knife-Wielding Spider God Found on 3,200-year-old Temple in Peru
The spider is thought to be associated with rain and fertility rituals that might have taken place in the shrine and its attendant complex of buildings.
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Man Loses World’s Largest Digital Art Collection After He Can’t Remember His Password
The $200 million collection include a lesser Beeple and a series of early-net fractals.
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Christie’s Launches Streaming Service That Allows You to Watch Money Being Laundered in Real-Time
White-collar criminals everywhere are toasting the legacy auction house.
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Brooklyn Museum’s KAWS Exhibition Named #1 Site for Bad Tinder Dates in NYC
The go-to spot for finance bros to take their online paramours edged out fierce competition.
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“Naked Bits” Jigsaw Puzzles Celebrate Bodies Through Dynamic Photographs
There’s nothing sexier than building anticipation, and nothing is a slower reveal than a jigsaw puzzle.