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Everything You Know About History Is Wrong: Part I
Everything You Know About History Is Wrong is a new series exploring widely believed historical myths. New installments will be published every few weeks. If you enjoy this sort of thing, let us know!
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Visiting the Whitney Plantation, Slavery Museum
Think of the worst thing you can possibly imagine that one human being might do to another and know that what really took place was a hundred times worse… By Matt Haughey.
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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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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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Virgenes de la Puerta
The work of collaborative artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, rooted in LGBT themes including gay and transgender rights and equality in Latin America and worldwide. Currently focused on the LGBTQ communities of Peru, their work features photography, sculpture, film and mixed-media installation.
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Geoffrey Hendricks, 86, Attention-Getting Fluxus Artist, Dies
Mr. Hendricks, known for both his sky paintings and his experiments in art as performance, was also a longtime teacher at Rutgers. By Neil Genzlinger.
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This exhibition gives a voice to the forgotten residents of Flint, Michigan
A new art-documentary explores why this city is the poster child for the American Dream gone wrong
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Klaar voor vertrek!! (Ready to depart!)
In a few days I will join a group exhibition, so some of the works are made ready to go on a short holiday. :-) In the clip you'll see all that take part, except one. I forgot that one until after I uploaded this clip. Of course. :-)
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This Is A Golden Age For Activist Design
So suggests first major museum show dedicated to protest art in the age of Brexit and Trump. By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan.
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Humanistic Anatomy
If Ramón y Cajal’s medical renown was partly a product of his artistry, then his drawings’ aesthetic virtues can’t be separated from their effectiveness as scientific documents. By Jackson Arn.
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Napoleon’s Chamber Pot: Propaganda and Fake News
Napoleon, with his aggrandizing bulletins and heroic portraits orchestrated down to the smallest detail, was a master of self-promotion. By Nina Martyris.
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Useful Only for Scrap Paper: Michelangelo’s Drawings
Charles Hope reviews "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at Metropolitan Museum, New York, until 12 February 2018.
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We should thank Melania Trump for spotlighting the joy of Scary Christmas
People around the world have long embraced the spooky side of the holiday season. By Jenni Avins. (Nov. 29, 2017)
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200 Artifacts of Witchcraft Cast a Spell in Cornell's “The World Bewitch’d”
The exhibit, full of manuscripts, photographs and posters, highlights the history of witchcraft in Europe. By Brigit Katz.
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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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The never before told story of the man in the infamous ‘Fuck the Draft’ posters
Of the many stories of official government suppression that came out of the Vietnam War era protest movements, one of the most compelling is the saga of Kiyoshi Kuromiya’s indelible “Fuck the Draft” poster. By Ron Kretsch.
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‘Dollhouses of Death’: New Hampshire woman’s crime-scene dioramas have taught investigators
Growing up in the late 19th century, Frances Glessner Lee was a typical young lady from a well-to-do family, but she had one rather unorthodox passion. Murder was her hobby. By Shawne K. Wickham.
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How can you show that the Snowden disclosures are everybody’s business?
What’s to become of the Snowden files? Are these documents to be re-appropriated into the system they sought to expose – or can the leaks be elevated to the realm of the commons? By Alina Floroi.
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An Artist for the Instagram Age
Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?
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The False Advertising of Sophistically Decorated, 19th-Century Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
These skillfully and elaborately designed cards were distributed by merchants to their customers in the late 19th century. By Claire Voon.
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