An expert’s honest review of every major city in Spain
One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...
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How Amsterdam’s Early Social Housing Failed Workers
In 1901, the city government of Amsterdam passed the Woningwet (“Housing Act”). Greenlighting the long-awaited demolition of ...
Farewell, Ruritania: Saying goodbye to Eastern Europe’s exotic aura
The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation-states.
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How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the word futurism in 1909, going on to take an extreme rightward swerve into politics. This ...
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$50 Van Gogh? Experts Say No, Offering Alternative Attribution in Dramatic Art Dispute
A $50 Van Gogh? Experts say no, offering an alternative attribution to the little known Danish artist Henning Elimar.
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The Art of Remembering Black Lives Showcases highlights Black European history
The Black Europe Film Festival‘s final day focused on lesser-known Black history in The Art of Remembering: Black Lives in ...
Symphony review: Masterworks 5 revitalizes our awareness of American history through spiritual melodies and the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...
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Exhibit featuring centuries worth of European drawings draws attention at CT museum
“I have been asked “The Wadsworth has European drawings ... Other artists in the show are undeniably most famous for their drawings, like the 19th-century Frenchmen Honoré Daumier and ...
Foreign Policy6d
The Clash Over Civilizations
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The Boston Globe6d
Worcester Art Museum to return two Greek antiquities to Italy, where they were likely removed illegally
which will enable the Worcester Art Museum to regularly showcase new antiquities,” Claire Whitner, WAM’s director of curatorial affairs and curator of European art, said in a statement.
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A history of the pharmaceutical industry
It later moved into medicines, commercialising aspirin around the turn of the 20th century, one of the most ... UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in Europe created a much more structured ...