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The French National Assembly 'promotes' the Jewish captain who divided the country at the end of the 19th century. It was the ...
He is the best known of a cohort of African architects whose ideas are at the profession’s cutting edge. In particular, they are showing how to build sustainably for a warming, changing planet; what’s ...
Spirit Plaza is home to two of Detroit’s most iconic public artworks: “ The Spirit of Detroit” and “ Monument to Joe Louis,” ...
When Edward Said published his book Orientalism in 1978, his insights shattered previous notions of East-West relations and ...
Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...
In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C ... It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty ...
Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...
The DIA has been acquiring African American art for more than 50 years. The stars of the collection cover a dizzy variety of styles cover some 175 years, from the 19th Century painter Robert S.
A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture ... now South Camac Street, into a museum of African American history and art. That house, which no longer stands, ...
Ghana is receiving 28 gold ornaments and regalia crafted by 19th-century artisans of the Asante court in ... The Edo Museum of West African Art in Nigeria, for instance, is now home to some of the ...
With its extensive collection of African, Asian and American ... former mansion of one of Newark’s 19th Century beer barons, the downtown art institution is New Jersey’s largest museum.