Traders and collectors long defined Native art. Young artists want to reclaim their vision
Native art has a rich history but young artists want to expand its roots and move things in different directions. What is the ...
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This Con Man Created A Fake Country In The Early 19th Century To Defraud Investors, Convincing Them A Local Indigenous Granted Him Land And Appointed Him As Pri…
The tropical oasis ran right along the Caribbean and contained major port towns like St. Joseph, Lempira, and MacGregor. ...
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The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
Every living generation has been petrified by The Wizard of Oz. Early in the 1939 film, a cranky neighbor riding her bicycle ...
Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot
Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could ...
Trailblazing Gloucester woman honored for keeping lighthouses ablaze during 1864 storm
Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a ...
ARKANSAS A-Z: Clara McDiarmid made waves as 19th-century reformer
Clara Alma Cox McDiarmid was Arkansas' foremost 19th-century women's reformer. She supported suffrage, temperance, women's ...
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What Was the ‘Estrado’? An Enlightening New Show Explores the Female-Centric Home Gallery and Refuge
A Room of Her Own” at the Hispanic Society in New York showcases sacred Estrado spaces of upper-class women in the 15th-18th ...
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An Old City archeologist writes an opera for a murdered 19th century woman
Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...
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Worcester Art Museum welcomes British touring exhibit, '20th Century Nudes from Tate'
Worcester Art Museum is hosting a traveling exhibition this fall, showcasing iconic 20th century nude paintings from the British Tate institution.
Author Sidney Morrison captivates Cleveland audience with a bold, fictional take on Frederick Douglass’s life
Author Sidney Morrison captivated a diverse audience at a recent speaking engagement at the Cleveland Public Library, ...
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Turkey scrubs up its baths to keep hammam tradition alive
For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running ...
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Istanbul's historic baths keep hammam tradition alive
Often featured in older Turkish films, hammam scenes are highly entertaining, with women ... such a rich interior, museum ...