Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines
The world's oldest Valentine is on display in the "Medieval Women: In Their Own Words" exhibition at the British Library in ...
Dancing, With Alvin Ailey’s Spirit Lurking in the Shadows
The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from ...
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Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...
Durham painter Anne Buckwalter’s exhibit at the Farnsworth is both everyday and erotic
Buckwalter visited five historic homesteads as part of her research for the paintings on view in Rockland that use domestic ...
‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...