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Japan Recalls Its South Korean Envoys Over “Comfort Women” Sculpture

by Claire Voon January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

An ongoing dispute over a statue commemorating South Korean victims of the Japanese imperial army’s sex slavery has escalated, with Japan summoning its ambassador and a consul general back to Tokyo.

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A Protest Monument to Victims of Sex Slavery May Become Permanent

by Benjamin Sutton January 3, 2017

Municipal officials in Busan returned a statue it had originally confiscated after protesters erected it next to the Japanese consulate as a tribute to the thousands of Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels.

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The British Artist Who Painted Through War and Found Surrealism

by Tausif Noor December 23, 2016December 22, 2016

A retrospective devoted to the British painter Paul Nash shifts the focus from his radical interpretations of war and Surrealism to his innovative use of color.

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Van Gogh’s 128-Year-Old Bed May Rest in a Dutch Village

by Claire Voon November 1, 2016November 1, 2016

While researching his latest van Gogh book, scholar Martin Bailey tried to track down the yellow bed the artist famously painted and developed an alternate theory as to why he sliced his ear.

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A Lost 15th-Century Mural that Depicted Death’s Indiscriminate Dance

by Allison Meier October 31, 2016October 31, 2016

In 1942, an Allied bombing in Lübeck, Germany, destroyed a famous 15th-century dance of death mural by artist Bernt Notke.

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How a Leg Splint Shaped the Iconic Eames Chair

by Allison Meier October 17, 2016October 17, 2016

Before Charles and Ray Eames made their name with modernist chairs, they perfected the molding of plywood with a military leg splint for World War II.

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How the Bulldozer Smoothed Postwar America into a Blank Slate

by Allison Meier August 3, 2016

Demolition and construction following World War II radically altered the landscape of the United States, and one machine in particular allowed for such a dramatic overhaul.

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A Digital Story Leads You Through Italy’s WWII Resistance

by Allison Meier March 11, 2016August 3, 2021

To mark the 70th anniversary of Italy’s 1945 liberation from fascism, the Milan-based duo We Are Müesli developed an interactive story based on the country’s 20 months of partisan resistance.

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40,000 Canisters of Aerial Film from World War II Land Online

by Allison Meier February 24, 2016February 26, 2016

Aerial photography dates to the early years of the 20th century, when pioneers like George R. Lawrence launched cameras into the skies with kites.

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A Photographer Who Exposed the Scars and Traumas of Postwar Japan

by Abe Ahn January 22, 2016January 24, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The story of Yokosuka, as told by photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, takes place in lonely, foreboding streets, where the miracle of Japan’s postwar economy seems to not have shaken off the grit and grime of history.

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Sole Surviving Jean Prouvé Prefab Military Shelter Surfaces at Design Miami

by Allison Meier December 3, 2015December 3, 2015

MIAMI BEACH — With prefabricated housing now essential in addressing housing shortages, emergency relief, and even architecture in Antarctica, the mid-20th century pop-up designs of the late Jean Prouvé are receiving renewed attention.

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The British Government’s Only Woman Artist in WWII Finally Gets a Retrospective

by Allison Meier October 6, 2015October 6, 2015

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman to be salaried as an Official British War Artist during World War II, painting and sketching images of the home front, particularly the Women’s Land Army where civilians were employed in agriculture to fill in for absent soldiers.

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