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Yayoi Kusama is a 94-year-old contemporary Japanese artist whose primary medium is sculpture and installation. She is also active in painting, performance, filmmaking, fashion, poetry and fiction among other arts. Her artistic language is a fusion of minimalism, surrealism, pop art, and abstract expressionism, embedded with profound autobiographical and psychological
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Fanny Mendelssohn was born into a rich family in Hamburg on the 14th of November in 1805. Her father, Abraham Mendhelsson, worked as a banker and provided a comfortable life for his family. Her mother, on the other hand, was a distinguished pianist and singer who took a great interest
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Climate Activists Destroy Important Painting at the National Gallery in the Name of Justice On Monday 11 a.m., two members of the Just Stop Oil group entered the National Gallery in London and used emergency hammers to strike the glassthat protected a 17th-century painting by Diego Velazquez. The painting,
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Early Years Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) found her artistic muse at a very young age. Born into a prominent Swedish aristocratic family, she spent her summers at the Adelsö island manor on Lake Mälaren, where she developed a profound connection to nature and the elements that would later inspire her
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Dr. Michael R. Hayden: The Wild Goose Chase for Missing Family Heirlooms Dr. Michael R. Hayden, a distinguished geneticist at the age of 71, holds an impressive career as the founder of five biotechnology companies, the recipient of many admirable awards in the field of medicine and a professor at
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How the “Sherlock Holmes” of Biology Solved a Century-old Portrait Mystery Late one summer evening in 2018, Javier Burgos found himself glued to his computer screen, scouring the internet for answers to a century-old art mystery. He stumbled upon a 2013 exhibition in Ravenna, Italy that piqued his interest. As
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“In the End, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King It’s early April 1942 a young Lale Sokolov (the main person) is sitting on a train meant for cattle, towards an unknown destination. A feeling of sadness defines
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The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 has been called one of the deadliest days in Colorado history. On one fateful day, American troops killed more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members, almost wiping out their entire
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The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park: An Immersive and Candid Look at Slavery The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is a new landmark that is expected to open in 2024 on a 70,000 square metre site in Montgomery, Alabama. The park has been built on the banks of the Alabama River,
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Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica: The Tale of an Unfinished Masterpiece Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica is finally nearing its completion, with five of its six central towers now fully-built as of last week. The tallest one, representing Jesus, is yet to be finished. Designed by Antoni Gaudi, a Catalan
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Smithsonian Purchases Collection About Enslaved Poet, Phillis Wheatley In 1761, Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston from Senegal/Gambia, West Africa as a seven-year-old child captive and was sold to a prominent family, known as the Wheatleys, who taught her how to read and write. Yearning for knowledge of the world
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Prominent Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement The future of the writing industry hangs in uncertainty as artificial intelligence becomes widely accessible to the public. With a simple click of a button, chatbots can generate three-thousand-word texts in mere seconds, making it easy for anyone to exploit this system. In