The dubious justice of the anti-immigrant Know-Nothings.
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From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science.
Jess, If All the World Were Paper ...
Folktales adapted into Buddhist tradition appear in art across India and beyond.
Jatakas: the many lives of Buddha as ...
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial
Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For ...
Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why?
The Case for Conceptual Art
You've likely seen this glassy-eyed late 19th Century barmaid before, but what can we make of this painting today?
Better Know: Manet’s Bar
The Met Museum in New York is filled with masterpieces of human creativity, but is there a better way to organize what's inside?
Remake the Met
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick?
The case for Realism
The nude has been celebrated but also censored. What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body?
The case for nudity
Should art be beautiful? Revisit ancient philosophers' thoughts on beauty and consider why we might be skeptical of beauty today.
Art must be beautiful
Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?
Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams
Martyr or murderer? John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John ...
Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to creating beauty from heart-rending tragedy.
Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki
Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to create beauty from heartrending tragedy
American Kabuki
Before T.V. and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.
George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician
The Winchester Bible is among the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts made in England in the twelfth century.
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