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The Nsibidi script ca. 600-1909 CE: a history of an African writing system

Nsibidi is one of Africa's oldest independently invented writing systems.

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Epicurus and The Pursuit of Happiness

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‘The Grammar of Angels’ by Edward Wilson-Lee review

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A 1933 Profile of Frida Kahlo: “Wife of the Master Mural Painter Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art”

Walter Keane—supposed painter of “Big Eyed Children” and subject of a 2014 Tim Burton film—made a killing, attaining almost Thomas Kinkade-like status in the middlebrow art market of the 1950s and 60s. As it turns out, his wife, Margaret was in fact the artist, “painting 16 hours a day,” according to a Guardian profile. In […]

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