Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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The End of Art: Arthur Danto's influential art theory
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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Andy’s Pop Life - Revisiting Steve Schapiro’s historic 1965 visit to Andy Warhol’s Factory and his travels across the US with a cadre of Superstars
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How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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Almost famous: The untold story of an artist’s rock-poster roots
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Chinese poetry of the detention barracks at Angel Island
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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Caravaggio was the other Michelangelo of the Renaissance
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Burlesque in crisis: Hanging on by a g-string
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Did Neanderthals make art?
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Unveiled: First immersive Roddenberry Archive experiences, multi-year roadmap to preserve history of the ‘Star Trek’ universe
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The race to save Ukraine’s sacred art
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Darwin's young children painted pictures and wrote stories on the back of draft manuscripts of Darwin's books and notes, and therefore a few original copies of his important works survived
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Why does this lady have a fly on her head?
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You can now explore all of ‘The Book of Kells’ for free online
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The case for nudity
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Why dark and light is complicated in photographs
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Native Americans: Portraits from a century ago
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Drawing with light: How photos were made a century ago
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After Pop, We Dematerialize: Oscar Masotta, Happenings and Media Art At the Beginnings of Conceptualism by Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman
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Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A silent film review
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Computer Graphics Special (1986 High Quality 60FPS Laserdisc CG Demo Reel)
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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
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Meet some of the last papyrus makers in Egypt keeping a 5,000-year-old craft alive | Still Standing
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The twenty-five greatest art heists of all time
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An art revolution, made with scissors and glue
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Why Japanese tigers have flat heads: Painted screen by Maruyama Okyo 円山応挙
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Inside the US Army’s warehouse full of Nazi art
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Artistic enigma decoded by cosmic Czech start-up
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Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
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Annunciation Triptych - Thank God for the details
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IBM's dance notation typewriter
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Learn about three famous paintings from one of the National Gallery’s curators
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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Why medieval cats look like… that
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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Origin and evolution of playing card designs
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Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
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Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be seen for first time - not displayed before due to homophobia artist encountered
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Cut, paste and remix your way through this century-spanning history of collage
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The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel
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A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
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Microscopically reweaving a 1907 painting
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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The powerful women whose patronage shaped art history
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In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
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The scandalous painting that helped create modern art | Édouard Manet's Olympia
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