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7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World
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Carl Schmitt: The Most Influential Nazi Philosopher?
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
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How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
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Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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3 Beautiful Places in the North of England Tourists Tend to Neglect
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The Jaguars of Yuruparí: Shamans of the Amazon Rainforest
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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The demonstrators are responding to the...
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Photographing The Invisible: Things are Queer by Duane Michals (1973)
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“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.” —Duane Michals Through image sequences, framing, multiple exposures,...
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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The St Brice’s Day Massacre
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
a month ago
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
JamesHoare
Wed, 11/13/2024 - 09:53
TheCollector
4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor of Rome
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TheCollector
Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Provocative Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition Opens at Gagosian
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Princess Diana ‘Black Sheep’ Jumper Sold for $1.1 M.
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a year ago
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Beneath the Waves...
a year ago
TheCollector
The Merchant’s House Museum Fears ‘Irreparable Damage’
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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11 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
6 Popular Netsuke Designs and Their Meanings
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10 months ago
TheCollector
11th-Century Coins Found by Metal Detectors Valued at $5.6M
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a month ago
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Grunwald: A Gamechanger for Eastern Europe
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a year ago
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The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
2 months ago
The Kingdom of Sicily is Born
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:49
TheCollector
Phillips 2023 Sales Dropped Down 15 Percent from 2022
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Lacan’s ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’
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5 months ago
TheCollector
5 Influential African Leaders of the 20th Century
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a year ago
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‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
9 months ago
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/19/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
Juan Pujol Garcia: Who Was Agent Garbo?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Did the Suffragettes Know Martial Arts?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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a year ago
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The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
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Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
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The Hindenburg Disaster: Oh, the Humanity!
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
Classical Wisdom
Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Harry Potter Watercolor For Record $1.9 Million
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Explore Montmartre Through Van Gogh’s Eyes: Views of Paris
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Cities in Massachusetts That Are Great Alternatives to Boston
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
8 months ago
This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Tale of Sinuhe: What Happens in the Ancient Egyptian Story?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
Patterns in Humanity
Why controlling for variables is insufficient
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what...
5 months ago
On the pervasiveness of residual confounding in the social sciences, how to think about it, and what to do
TheCollector
The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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TheCollector
Was David Gulpilil Australia’s Most Important Actor?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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4 months ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
What Was the Fall of Satan in the Bible?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What is Art? Approaching Aesthetics in 3 Ways
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a year ago
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How Did Emperor Nero treat Christians During His Reign?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Finding The Original Drugstore Cowboy : Los Angeles In 1980
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith...
8 months ago
Originally the Columbia Drugstore was next to Gower Gulch at Sunset and Gower, says Meredith Jacobson Marciano. In 1980, the coffee shop was closing forever.”The term “drugstore cowboy” came from here to mean a young wannabe whippersnapper who wanted to get into Westerns but...
weird medieval guys
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!
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a year ago
oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!
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Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,”...
4 months ago
“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
TheCollector
Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Life of Aristotle
More Than A Philosopher
11 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
5 Quotes from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?
I Dare You...
5 months ago
TheCollector
Marcel Breuer’s Iconic Work: From Bauhaus to Brutalism
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a year ago
TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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a year ago
African History...
A history of Grande Comore (Ngazidja) ca. 700-1900.
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
11 months ago
State and society on a cosmopolitan island
History Today Feed
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Deterring Armageddon’ by Peter Apps and ‘NATO’ by Sten Rynning review
JamesHoare
Tue, 03/26/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
The Enigmatic Harper Lee: 10 Facts
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3 weeks ago
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
a week ago
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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2 months ago
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
JamesHoare
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is a Banana Republic?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient City Destroyed by Romans
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
8 months ago
Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
TheCollector
What Is Trompe L’Oeil?
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art and Sports Come Together at SFMOMA
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African travel literature in history
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
7 months ago
a Swahili document on south-central Africa.
TheCollector
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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6 months ago
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’...
3 months ago
‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/17/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Why Was the Beat Generation Called So?
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
TheCollector
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Garnet
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a year ago
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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3 months ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Grey Art Gallery at NYU Gets New Space and Name
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a year ago
TheCollector
Was Catherine of Aragon the Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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a year ago
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
8 months ago
Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Damien Hirst Accused of Misdating Thousands of Paintings
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Artists of The Nouveau Réalisme Movement You Should Know
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a year ago
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