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Christ in the Garden of Endless Breadsticks
The agony and the ecstasy of America’s favorite chain restaurant. By Helen Rosner.
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A Brief History of the ‘Danse Macabre’
Skeletons have been dancing people to their graves since at least 1424. By Bethany Corriveau Gotschall.
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A Brief History of the Color Pink
From Renaissance portraits to rose gold iPhones, here’s a brief history of pink in art—and beyond. By Alice Bucknell.
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7 Forgotten Women Surrealists Who Deserve To Be Remembered
Always cherchez la femme, people. By Priscilla Frank.
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How Zarafa, France’s First Giraffe, Became a Cultural Sensation
In art, fashion, and eccentric hairstyles, the arrival of the first giraffe in France in the 1820s caused a sensation in culture. By Allison Meier.
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Caput Mortuum, An Earthy Brown Made of Bodies (or Minerals!)
Cultural histories of unusual hues. By Katy Kelleher.
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Hidden Munch treasures released: «The Scream» initially looked completely different
More than 7600 Munch sketches, many previously unknown, have been published for unrestricted use. Among them are the sketches showing how «The Scream» looked before the world-famous version.
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Yugoslavian architecture – in pictures
Toward a Concrete Utopia focuses on the period of intense construction in Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980
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A Spitting Image
Painted Spanish sculpture had flesh tones and realistic wounds and tears and glass eyes, and it gave Protestants the creeps. But here’s the thing: Italian sculptors of the Renaissance also colored their works and were seemingly happy to do so. If we tend to forget this, it may be because the evidence we are looking at has been rigged: painted terracottas of the Renaissance have been stripped of their color, just as innumerable wood carvings of the northern schools have been stripped and “antiqued” in a manner acceptable to past taste and the antiques trade. By James Fenton.
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After the bullets, the brushes: how the First World War transformed art
When the war finally came to an end, artists on both sides had to face the problem of how to paint the peace. By Michael Prodger.
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The Dark Side of War Propaganda
How is hawkish fanaticism whipped up at home? One exhibition offers insight. By Bradley Anderson.
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Journeys Into the Outside With Jarvis Cocker
Groundbreaking Channel 4 series from 1998 exploring Outsider Art, in which Jarvis Cocker travels the globe in search of large-scale visionary environments. [All three episodes inside the snap.]
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The timeless beauty of Edward Burne-Jones
In private, the Pre-Raphaelite painter had a silly side
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How black women were whitewashed by art
Where are all the beautiful, powerful, black-skinned females from mythology and history? They were erased by Western art, argues Sophia Smith Galer.
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Whys of seeing
Experimental psychology is providing concrete answers to some of the great philosophical debates about art and its meaning. By Ellen Winner.
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The original emoji: Why The Scream is still an icon for today
Edvard Munch's painting has become one of the most ubiquitous images on the planet.
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Scientists solve the mystery of Rembrandt’s “impasto” paint recipe
A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.
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Vanitas, Vanity of Vanities
This is why we can't have nice things. By Liz Publika.
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Munch’s ‘Scream’ Is Fading Because of Viewers’ Breath, New Study Finds
The painting’s yellow pigment has been flaking and fading for years.
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Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru
Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site
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