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An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online
From a report on sundown towns to interviews with Angela Davis and Emmett Till’s mother, here are highlights from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
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An Eco-conscious Museum Will Sprout From a Logged Rainforest in Mexico
The museum, built in the form of a reinvented stepped pyramid, will be located on an expanse of cleared forest, previously stripped bare by illegal logging.
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This Longing Vessel Transmits Dreams of Tomorrow
Queerness and desire take center stage in the most recent exhibition of work by the Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence.
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Spencer Museum of Art Exhibitions Investigate Healing, Illness, and the Human Body Amid a Pandemic
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body and The Aorta of an Archivist explore our understanding of the human body and related themes of health, care, and connection.
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The Links Between Linear Perspective and Virtual Reality Technology
It may surprise the reader to find that one of the founding moments for the development of virtual reality actually happened in Florence, in the early 15th century.
Books
Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later?
We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way.
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On The Front Line
Through his photographs Hrair Sarkissian portrays a quiet, depopulated and somewhat eerie landscape of Karabakh.
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Shushi’s Occupied Museums
Indigenous Armenian heritage in occupied Artsakh’s museums faces the threat of erasure and cultural cleansing.
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A Photographer Documents Post-war Artsakh
Scout Tufankjian spent a month in post-war Artsakh to witness the controversial ceasefire that would involve the removal of lands from the sovereignty of the Republic of Artsakh.
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A War Over Patterns, Symbols, and the Cultural Heritage of Karabakh's Carpets
The government of Azerbaijan has been supporting various initiatives that ethnically cleanse the art of Armenians in Artsakh and Azerbaijan and the ancient art of carpet weaving is one of the frontlines in their war.
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The Complexity of Medieval Identities in the Caucasus
The story of Hasan Jalal Dawla, an Armenian prince in Artsakh, offers insight into the world of Medieval people.
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An Unusual Mother and Child Sculpture in Handaberd
A late 12th- or early 13th-century khachkar in the province of Karvajar is part of a larger history of nursing images in Christian imagery, but is it threatened?