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A Virtual Exhibit Unites Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers
The global collaboration features five of the six surviving canvases
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Cremation Rates Reach All-Time High in the U.S.
The practice has surpassed burial rates for the second year in a row
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Ruth Pfau, “Mother of Leprosy Patients,” Has Died
Over five decades, the German-born physician and nun treated thousand of patients and got the leprosy epidemic under control in Pakistan
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Two ‘Lost’ Alberto Giacometti Drawings Found in Antique Dealer’s Collection
The works were “buried under piles of dust-covered antiques, paintings and drawings”
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Georgia College Gifted Farm Where Flannery O’Connor Composed Southern Gothic
The author’s alma mater will take over and maintain the Savannah-born author’s final home
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New Art Exhibit Remembers Trashy Tabloid Culture of 2000s
The Brooklyn show highlights art inspired by the age when celebrity scandals and gossip reigned supreme
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Tate Modern’s Modigliani Exhibition Ventures Into Virtual Reality
The upcoming retrospective couples works by the famed modernist with the museum’s first VR experience
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The Centuries-Old Tradition of Military Quilting Is Getting Its First Exhibition in the U.S.
The display celebrates the art and craft of soldiers at war and offers insight into life in the military
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Three Things to Know About the Louvre’s History
The home of the Mona Lisa has a history that’s almost 1000 years long
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Lights Are Driving Bats From Their Belfries
The trend of pointing floodlights at churches in Sweden has driven some long-eared bat colonies out of their historic roosts
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The German Language Adds 5,000 New Words
The latest edition of the Duden dictionary includes tindern, or online dating, and postfaktisch, meaning post-truth
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Survey Finds Most People Are Biased Against Atheists, Including Atheists
The findings revealed that the bias was strongest in more religious countries including the United States, United Arab Emirates and India
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Eighty Years Later, Two Exhibits Confront the “Degenerate Art” Purge
In 1937, the Nazis confiscated modernist art from museums and put it up for ridicule in an exhibit that still reverberates today
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This Is What Global Dissent Sounds Like
A new project maps almost 200 recordings taken in 27 different countries over the past 26 years
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Two Pierogi Festivals Face Off Over Trademark
It’s an epic battle for dumpling domination
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This Taiwanese Museum Just Digitized Its Massive Collection of Chinese Art
70,000 images are available for download via the National Palace Museum’s website
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Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Legacy of Lynching’ Exhibition Confronts Racial Terror
Video testimony and research findings supplement selections from the museum’s holdings
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This Animated Movie About Van Gogh Is Made Entirely of Oil Paintings
Loving Vincent will include more than 56,000 paintings
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Amid Soaring Produce Prices, Indian City Launches “State Bank of Tomato”
The bank began as a tongue-in-cheek protest, but residents are taking it seriously
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What Does the Architecture of Anime Look Like?
A new exhibit brings together the creative design behind some of the most iconic cyberpunk anime films
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