It turns out that we Homo sapiens are not the only species to explore art and its abstractions.
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A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things
In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”
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Peeling Back the Messy and Myriad Layers of Tutankhamun’s Discovery
Thorough and rewarding, Christina Riggs’s Photographing Tutankhamun illuminates the reasons behind our fascination with one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous tombs.
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Living in a Renaissance Palace, an Art Historian Uncovers an Amazing Past
When an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai, Allison Levy seized on it.
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How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Reader’s Diary: A Philosopher’s Fictions
It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.