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A New Translation Breaths Fresh Life Into Charles Baudelaire
A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil offers English readers the best way of ...
Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...
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Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...
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4,000-year-old burial of elite woman with ostrich fan reveals world's oldest known evidence of head straps
Researchers made the finding in Sudan after analzying the remains of 30 people (14 females and 16 males) buried in a Nubian ...
The women who shaped Sigmund Freud and a hero who can’t feel pain – what to watch, read and do this week
This week we recommend a new exhibition in the home of Sigmund Freud, an action comedy about a man who feels no pain and the ...
Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the ...
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New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts a French woman rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur
Horvilleur, one of France's most prominent rabbis, says the show's main character is "very different from me" — but with some ...
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What Stirs the Life in You? The Garden Asks
The Garden’s scent is a messenger, arriving again and again, inviting us in. Hidden exchanges, hidden cycles stir life ...
‘Pieces of a Woman' Director Kornél Mundruczó Reflects on ‘Place to Be,' Teases Amy Adams Drama and ‘Elephant Man' Revival (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes laureate Kornél Mundruczó is juggling multiple high-profile projects across different continents. There’s the Ellen ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
Life-size sculptures — of a possible priestess and her husband — found at Pompeii
Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a necropolis in the Porta Sarno region of Pompeii, according to two April 1 news ...
A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...