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Eight objects that define the Soviet space race
As London’s Science Museum salutes Russia’s space race with a new exhibition, we ask the curator to pick eight objects – big and small – that defined it.
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12 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in New Mexico
Boasting one of most incredibly scenic and diverse landscapes in North America, New Mexico offers endless opportunities for exploration and adventure. With strong influences of both Native American and Hispanic culture, the state offers the visitor a multitude of unique attractions both in large cities like Santa Fe and Albuquerque as well as the smaller hubs of UFO-focused Roswell and the artists' colony of Taos.
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3D Scanning: The 21st-Century Equivalent to a 19th-Century Process
Karen Lemmey, American Art's sculpture curator is organizing an installation that will include Hiram Power's Greek Slave, one of the most popular sculptures of the 19th century. As part of her preparation, she is working with Smithsonian X 3D, part of the Institution's Digitization program, to create a 3D model of the Greek Slave.
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‘Silent Cal’ Hailed From Vermont
Plymouth Notch is a very small town nestled in the quiet Vermont countryside and is now a Vermont State Historic Site and the entire settlement is a historic district. Coolidge became president upon the death of Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923.
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The Accidental Color That Redirected Human Expression
Discovered by a Chemist, Prussian Blue Gave Painters the Spontaneity They Were Missing. By John Griswold.
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Episode 660: The T-Rex In My Backyard
There's a boom going on for dinosaur bones, a veritable gold rush for fossils buried in the badlands of North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. Today on the show: the T-Rex that started it all.
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Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas
Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace...
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The Museum's Ghosts: Photos by Andres Wertheim
Multiple exposures shot inside a museum by photographer Andres Wertheim.
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Dio Mio! Thieves Steal Artworks Worth $16M in Italian Museum Heist
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, thieves have stolen 17 valuable artworks from a museum.
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How a Rare Judas Painting Survived the 16th-Century English Reformation
During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War.
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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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Are Tattoos Art?
The once-subversive 1,000-year-old form is seeing growing acceptance in auctions and museums—but it can be an uneasy fit.
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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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The Scandalous Legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Collector of Art and Men
Long before the gallery she built was famously robbed, Isabella Stewart Gardner was shocking 19th-century society with her disregard for convention. By Lyz Lenz.
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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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The Met Museum is Hoarding some Seriously Good Holiday Party Dresses
Still haven't found a fabulous frock for Christmas eve or the dress of the year to bring in 2016? It's probably because the Met Museum is hoarding all of the most incredible vintage dresses in their archives.
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Nicolas Cage agrees to return stolen dinosaur skull to Mongolia
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage has agreed to turn over a rare stolen dinosaur skull he bought for $US276,000 ($382,000) to US authorities so it can be returned to Mongolia. The US Attorney in Manhattan filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday to take possession of the Tyrannosaurus bataar skull, which will be handed to the Mongolian Government.
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Printing History is Big and Bright in Texas
Steven Heller chats with Keelin Burrows, curator of The Printing Museum in Houston, and looks closer at the museum's offerings.
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How Art Became Irrelevant
A chronological survey of the demise of art. By Michael J. Lewis. (July 1)
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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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