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The Man Who Shaped Tomorrow
“Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk,” an illuminating exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, traces Muller-Munk’s evolution from craftsman of precious objects to stylist of household appliances. By Martin Filler.
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The Barricade and the Dance Floor: Aesthetic Radicalism and the Counterculture
A selected chapter from the exhibition catalogue for the Walker Center’s “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” by curator Andrew Blauvelt.
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Splendors of the Dead
Twenty-one Greek museums and four North American museums have cooperated to collect over five hundred artifacts from Ancient Greece in an extraordinary exhibition called “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.” By Garry Wills.
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Violence, victors and victims: how to look at the art of the British empire
There can be few more contentious subjects than the empire, and few artistic legacies more explosive. Now, Tate Britain is to hold the first major British exhibition of masterworks from the colonial period – and the results are revealing. By William Dalrymple.
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An Urban History: The Influence of Street Gangs on Contemporary Art
The influence of street culture on art in Los Angeles has been systematically underrepresented by academia and art history. Although scholarly research has traced the origin of gang graffiti from the 1930s on, this aesthetic has been largely absent from the dialogue about the shaping of modern art. By Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre.
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First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee
The huge collection of books belonging to Dr John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I and proto-modern scientist, is being exhibited for the first time. (Dec. 16)
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NSFW How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters
Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or actively seek to distance themselves from it... By Lisa Hix.
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The significance of Sarah Baartman
Two centuries ago, Sarah Baartman died after years spent in European “freak shows.” Now rumours over a possible Hollywood film about Baartman's life have sparked controversy. By Justin Parkinson.
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Monster-Sized Marine Crocodile Discovered
A fossil found in the African desert is the biggest of its kind. By Brian Switek.
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A Rare Encounter with an Aaron Douglas Painting that References Slavery’s Past
Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas’s “Let My People Go” (1935–39)... By Allison Meier.
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Inside the Institutions for the Chernobyl Victims Forgotten by Society
In her photo series "The Invisible People of Belarus," photographer Jadwiga Bronte explored the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the people of Belarus, specifically those living in governmental institutions called "internats." These institutions are part asylum, part orphanage, and part hospice... By Tom Usher.
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On (Not) Facing Britain’s Imperial Past at Tate Britain
“More broadly, looting committed by the British in India was so vast in scale that Powis Castle (in Wales) alone holds more Mughal artefacts ‘than are on display at any one place in India – even the National Museum in Delhi.’” By Louis Allday.
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To oblivion and beyond: art and science at the edge of consciousness
From William Blake’s vision of a soul leaving the body to Goshka Macuga’s creepy somnambulist, a new exhibition explores the mysteries of the mind – but are we any closer to finding the answers Descartes was seeking when he dissected a human brain more than 350 years ago?
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How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.
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Photography’s Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes... By Claire Voon.
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The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee
As an exhibition of notorious magician John Dee’s books continues, Philip Ball argues that he warrants a place in science’s history.
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Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island
Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.
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The appearance of disappearance: the CIA’s secret black sites
Photographer Edmund Clark and journalist Crofton Black on the CIA’s covert detention facilities.
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A peek into the National Parasite Collection’s most fascinating creepy-crawlies
You won't be able to see any of the 20 million or so creatures in the U.S. National Parasite Collection for a while because displays take a few years to create. In the meantime, here are some of the collection’s most fascinating creepy-crawlies. By Bonnie Berkowitz and Lazaro Gamio.
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The Original Wagner
Martin Filler reviews the Morgan Library and Museum’s “Wagner’s Ring: Forging an Epic” exhibition.
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