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She was the face of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. But there was more to Dora Maar than a woman crushed
The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters ...
Designer Spotlight: How Cheyney McKnight Uses Ancestral Design Techniques To Educate And Inspire
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
The A.V. Club's most anticipated books of summer 2025
No matter what genre you prefer, summer always offers a veritable literary bounty. This year, Benedict Nguyễn’s “deeply ...
A New View of John Singer Sargent’s American Socialites
The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that ...
Review: Stanton Welch's 'Raymonda' is his finest work to date as Houston Ballet's artistic director
Welch’s finest achievement to date as Houston Ballet’s artistic director, this production spins welcome new life into a ...
Friday Essay: 'The Boy-Girl', A Crime Journalist And A Black Activist Meet The Radical Ratbags Of 19Th-Century Melbourne
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953).
How the Passionate Male Friendship Died
They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...
In 'unprecedented' victory, Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of slaves
The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes," a precursor to modern-day ...
Women — their artistry, contributions — ’in focus’ at exhibition and performance in Balboa Park
Cami Arboles, a visual and movement artist, and founder of the Mind Body Spirit Collective, a global educational and ...