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Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private curiosity cabinets to its later use in documenting increasingly public collections, Thea Applebaum…
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Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Expedition accounts of aeronauts bravely venturing into the heavens on hot-air balloons.
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Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s
Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wangari Mathenge’s…
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Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut
'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years…
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Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
From Kagi Small Web
Werner Lott -U Boat commander.
Captain(Korvettenkapitän)Werner Lott was commander of U-35 from 15 August 1937 until 29 November 1939.He sank 4 ships and damaged one. You often hear about war crimes committed by the German armed forces, but there were also acts of decency. Around 15.40 on 3 Oct, 1939, the Greek freighter…
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Reasons for war vs excuses for war
The Schleswig Wars in the mid-19th century stemmed from nationalism rather than legal complexities. Denmark sought to centralize control over Schleswig-Holstein, home to many German speakers. This led to conflicts driven by both Danish and German nationalism, with superficial legal disputes serving…
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JWN (全国新聞ニュース網) (1998 - 2017)
seven companies published eight papers between them, and the arithmetic worked because the tokyo shimbun comes off the chunichi's tokyo presses. they put their local news on one shared domain in 1998 and kept it there for nineteen years, straight through the arrival of the kyodo-backed portal that…
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Dennis Crowley on the end of Foursquare
After 17 years, Foursquare’s ending is written. Writing this to share my opinions & frustrations with the final years of the company, and to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ’s legacy.
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Zero
This is a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter of WWII, in 1:144 scale, FDM printed on my old Ender 3. It's a very simple model with virtually no surface detail at all, and I don't recall who designed it or where I got it. It was some considerable time ago. I have no immediate use for it, as I…
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Biblical Authorship vs. Historical Composition Dates
A research catalogue of traditional attributions, anonymous writers, and later compositions Yes. This is an important companion to the biblical […]
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