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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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The Libellous Letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
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Inside a Renaissance Workshop: How did it Work?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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The Vasari Sacristy: Breathtaking Artwork in Naples
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Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
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I always loved Saturdays. When I was a college student, quite improbably, my parents decided that I would be a “technical executor” of our family’s monthly budget. My family was part of the red bourgeoisie and we had enough, and probably more than enough, for a comfortable life;...
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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Dreams of Space -...
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This is a 1951 paperback collection of 4 Robert Heinlein stories. Normally I would not blog about a science fiction collection but I found this charming. I imagined some older avid child finding this collection and devouring it. Both the title and cover have a lot of appeal and...
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An Introduction to the Ethics of Care
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts
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Complaints about the commercial-age corruption of Christmas miss one critical fact: as a mass public celebration, the holiday is a rather recent invention. Whether we credit Charles Dickens, Bing Crosby, or Frank Capra—men not opposed to marketing—we must reckon with Christmas as...
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‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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5 Tips on How to Approach Conceptual Art
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Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
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Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness?
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Posters From London’s Psychedelic UFO Club – 1966-1967
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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What Is the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
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7 Things You Need To Know About Egon Schiele
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CrimethInc.
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Should We Be Skeptics?
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
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What Is the Philosophy Behind Zen Gardens?
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
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We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
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How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928)
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James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or...
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Like everybody who has studied Marxism from a relatively young age I encountered many quotes of, or comments on, James Burnham's “The Managerial Revolution”. I was quite familiar with Burnham’s ideas but I have not read the book. I don't think that I would have read it, now in...
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László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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10 Weird Events From Presidential Elections
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
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Ruthless Emperor & Granter of Citizenship: Who was Caracalla?
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Reacting to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke and the British Pamphlet War
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6 Aspects of the Egyptian God Thoth
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Towton: How Britain’s Fiercest Battle Unfolded
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What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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‘Who Really Wrote the Bible’ by William M. Schniedewind review
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Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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Artist Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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