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The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones
An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.
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Artificial Childhoods, Fading Innocence, and Black Panthers at the Photography Show
Portraiture and history dominates this year's The Photography Show, and there are many stand out works by Osamu Yokonami, Julie Blackmon, Ryan Vizzions, and others.
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A Portrait of Tennessee Williams as a Playwright and a Person
Seeing the playwright's process, the countless drafts, and the lukewarm reception of his early plays is a reminder that the struggle to make art can be overcome — and that we should, through the hardship, carry on.
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An Artist's Troll Den Embodies the Messy Spectacle of the Internet
Trolls in the 21st-century exert their presence and identity in digital spaces, but Molly Colleen O'Connell makes them physical. Don't feed them.
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Before MAGA: Mithras, Phrygian Caps, and the Politics of Headwear
Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.
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An Urgent Effort to Document New York's LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
The former meeting place of the Gay Liberation Front is slated for demolition — but a group of historian-activists is racing to document sites like it, before they disappear.
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Seeing the Lives of Immigrants in Objects and Images of Home
Testimony, an exhibition about the lives of Bay Area immigrants, chooses to focus less on trauma and displacement than on the everyday meanings of home.
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Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.
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The Delights of Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons, in NYC for the First Time
The Frick Collection hosts the North American debut of Francisco de Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a Spanish Golden Age series with mysterious origins.
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A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.
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Andreas Gursky Captures the Pandemonium of Industrialized Overproduction
The photographer reproduces a sense of economic spectacle suffused with an encroaching disbelief in its benefits in his retrospective at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery.
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The Renaissance Roots of Social Media
Centuries before Facebook, traveling scholars carried “friendship books” — alba amicorum — to document their professional and personal associations.