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Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century

The 19th century saw the rise of the posthumous portrait when, through photographs and paintings, people preserved the faces of departed loved ones.

Performance

In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience

Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.

Books

Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age

Lucinda Hawksley's book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade.

News

6.6-Magnitude Earthquake in Central Italy Destroys Historic Buildings

On Sunday morning, central Italy was hit by the country's most violent earthquake since 1980.

Announcement

'Feminism Is Politics!' at Pratt Manhattan Gallery Explores the "New Feminism"

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Art

Confronting the Contradictions of Our Tech-Obsessed Culture

In her solo exhibition at Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Addie Wagenknecht boils down the experiences of postinternet life and then alchemizes them.

Art

A Lost 15th-Century Mural that Depicted Death's Indiscriminate Dance

In 1942, an Allied bombing in Lübeck, Germany, destroyed a famous 15th-century dance of death mural by artist Bernt Notke.

Art

A Caribbean Cultural Center Finds a Permanent Home in Harlem

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute just reopened in a landmark building that was once a firehouse at 120 East 125th Street, right in between the atria and ventricles at the heart of East Harlem.