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The ICA at VCU Presents Gideon Appah: Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes
Gideon Appah’s paintings merge his interest in Ghanaian popular culture with his own imagination, dreams, and fantasies. Now on view in Richmond, Virginia.
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The Comics That Influenced The Batman
Though superhero movies are Hollywood’s biggest moneymakers, too often we forget their source material.
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Why We Need a Post-Colonial Lens to Look at Ukraine and Russia
In a post-Soviet era we should consider how Russians continue to benefit from colonialism and imperialism in the realm of culture.
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Reading Anne Ryan's Poetic Collages
Ryan harnessed visual art as a means for creating poetry through the relatively new, nonverbal idioms of American abstract art.
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The Medieval Body Balances the Heavenly and Corporeal
Central to The Medieval Body at Luhring Augustine is the tension between the bloodied or bruised abject body and the beatified soul.
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The Sheer Vastness of Information Makes Keeping Accurate Historical Records Impossible
Judith Schalansky breathes life into buildings and places that have faded from the collective consciousness.
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Gripping Images Capture More Than Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Over 80 National Geographic photographers in dozens of countries documented the universality of grief and loss around the world.
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Smithsonian Announces Landmark Decision to Repatriate Benin Bronzes
The institution says it will return most of the 39 artifacts in its collection to Nigeria for eventual display at the Benin City National Museum.
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Ukrainian Artists Are Building Anti-Tank Obstacles
Volo Bevza and other artists are helping construct the anti-tank obstacles known as “hedgehogs” in an old metal workshop in Lviv.
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Archaeologists Uncover Largest Trove of Mummification Materials in Egypt
“It is probably the largest complex and undisturbed find of its kind originating from ancient Egypt,” said Mohamed Megahed, head of the archaeological mission.
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Tyler School of Art and Architecture Opens 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition Series
Themes of collective identity, preservation of memories, living in a time of disease, and communal healing and catharsis permeate works by 25 graduate students.
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Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Highlights Three Early Modernists Who Straddled Europe and Asia
For the first time in three centuries the Belvedere Museum is displaying creations by artists who are not Austrian and have no connection to Austrian art.