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Become an Art Detective and Unravel the Mysteries of the UK’s Public Collections

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

Art Detective is an initiative from Art UK that involves specialists and the public in solving mysteries about the public collections paintings in the UK.

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An Unlikely East-West Collaboration in 1830s Portraits of Tumor Patients

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 13, 2016September 15, 2016

Guangzhou, then called Canton by Westerners, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trading until the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and it became a rare hub of direct interactions between the two cultures. One of these resulted in a surprisingly moving series of paintings portraying bodies disfigured by tumors.

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The Hand-Painted Ghouls and Specters of Mid-20th-Century Carnival Ghost Trains

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 1, 2016September 2, 2016

Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad.

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The Fantastical Visions of a Forgotten Early-20th-Century Illustrator

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 29, 2016August 30, 2016

Sidney Herbert Sime’s art seems to capture the point at which a dream becomes a nightmare.

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How Anamorphic Paintings Represented the Miracles of the Saints

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 8, 2016August 9, 2016

Which saint you see in this 17th-century painting depends on where you stand.

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A New Website Lets You Browse Images of All Publicly Owned Art in the UK

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne March 2, 2016March 2, 2016

“THROUGH OUR PUBLIC COLLECTIONS WE ALL OWN ART,” reads a new painting by British artist Bob and Roberta Smith (who is one guy).

“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More
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“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More

Scholars, artists, curators, activists, and historians will convene at Syracuse University in October to consider the role of monuments and their contested place in contemporary society.

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