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On the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Recalling the Hope It Offers
Amidst the destabilization and trauma we currently face, an exhibit on the brave revolt tells a conflicted story of self-empowerment.
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Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer
To archaeologists, understanding the building of the Pyramids at Giza is a matter of scaling up the labor system seen earlier at sites like Abydos.
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How a Dutch Painting Dominates the Way We See a 17th-Century Lynching
Jan de Baen’s “The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” has become the dominant visual representation of the brothers’ lynching, but whether it deserves this honor is debatable.
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A World-Famous Ancient Collection, on Display for the First Time, Awaits Visitors in Rome
The impressive exhibition undertaken by the Capitoline Museums and the Torlonia Foundation was 40 years in the making, and placed close to 100 marble sculptures from the storied Torlonia collection on view.
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The Artists Who Lurk on the Dark Web
A sense of risk permeates mainstream stories about the dark web. This unsafeness attracted the attention of those artists and creatives who critically focus on the study of digital tools.
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How a Trump Executive Order Aims to Set White Supremacy in Stone
In the recent tumult many seem to have missed how a recent executive order on “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” looks to enshrine the success of the 2017 “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville.
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In a Whitney Museum Exhibition, Jewish Artists Go Unrecognized and Unexamined
It seems that, in reinscribing the Mexican muralists who were “written out” of American history, the curators of Vida Americana replaced one exclusion with another.
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The Forgotten Federally Employed Artists
Why are the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) artist programs less well known than the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects for being an instance when the federal government employed artists en masse?
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How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
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Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain’s First Recorded Female Artist
Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.
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Unearthing Canada’s Impressionist Legacy
Canada and Impressionism closes an art-historical gap on the Canadian artists who made the journey to France — most of whom are little known or studied — and explores what happened when they went back home.