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Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born fro

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40,000 Early Modern Maps Are Now Freely Available Online (Courtesy of the British Library)

Most of us do not, today, live in desperate need of maps. On the internet we can easily find not only the current maps we need to navigate most any territory on Earth, but also an increasing proportion of all the maps made before as well.

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A Surreal and Eerie Look at Los Angeles Over the Past Decade

In Stanya Kahn’s earlier films, Los Angeles seems ready to spark a revolution at any moment. But in the newest adventure, the urban sprawl creeps into the inhabitants’ states of mind, and everything languishes.

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Where Does Protest Art Fit in the “Canon” of Contemporary Art?

We Fight to Build a Free World prompts the question of whether political artworks can truly convey their own radicalism within the halls of an Upper East Side museum.

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The Fascinating World of Neanderthal Aesthetics

It turns out that we Homo sapiens are not the only species to explore art and its abstractions.

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Newly Documented Aboriginal Rock Art Is 'Unlike Anything Seen Before'

The ancient paintings depict close relationships between humans and animals

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How Early US Propaganda Grew Out of a Society of Illustrators

If contemporary echoes of fascism have brought the 1930s and ‘40s troublingly to mind, it’s worth recalling that modern propaganda became a

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A Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France

A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found.

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Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments

The initiative, the largest in the organization’s history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of existing ones.

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Newly Documented Aboriginal Rock Art Is 'Unlike Anything Seen Before'

The ancient paintings depict close relationships between humans and animals

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National COVID Remembrance

The National COVID-19 Remembrance will remember lives lost to Covid-19, honor frontline and essential workers, and demand elected officials

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Rev. William J. Barber II on the Scourge of Environmental Racism

Along the Mississippi River, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, land where black people were once enslaved on plantations is now being poisoned by petrochemical plants that have given …

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Can We Unlearn Imperialism? Ariella Azoulay Offers Methods and Lessons

In Potential History, the violence of photography saturates the very idea of European “progress,” resonating from Palestine to the Congo to

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40,000-Year-Old Symbols Found in Caves Worldwide May Be the Earliest Written Language

We may take it for granted that the earliest writing systems developed with the Sumerians around 3400 B.C.E. The archaeological evidence so

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There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters

'Great literature is one of two stories,' we often quote Leo Tolstoy as saying: 'a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town

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“Memory is the only raw material we can turn to”: the Black Audio Film Collective on creating a Black cinema

In the September 1989 issue of the Monthly Film Bulletin, John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul talked to Julian Petley about Handsworth Songs, the resilience of the past and their efforts to embed political and cultural address in an expanded cinematic language.

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Nudity in the US Film Industry, and How it Has (and Hasn’t) Evolved

The documentary Skin spurs the viewer to think about what kind of bodies are usually naked in movies.