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Decolonising museums isn’t part of a ‘culture war’. It’s about keeping them relevant

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By Dan Hicks, The Guardian, 7 May, 2021. Let’s be open to the idea of returning stolen cultural objects, and remaking international relationships with honesty The dead don’t bury themselves. This is one of the first lessons that every student of archaeology must learn. A grave is never evidence of some Pompeii moment, a freeze-frame […]

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Nigerian Artist Williams Chechet Presents Solo Exhibition “Hyperflux”

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  By Audrey Lang, Okayafrica., 26 January, 2021 The Nigerian art wizard’s 2020 exhibit interrogates both the history and politics in Africa. Last December, Nigerian artist, Williams Chechet, debuted an extensive display of his work in a solo exhibition titled, “Hyperflux” at Abuja-based contemporary art gallery, Retro Africa. The exhibition comprises 28 works, including 3 lightboxes and

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Ottoman sultan’s iconic portrait donated to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

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Daily News, 3 May, 2021 A rare 16th-century portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, has been donated to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality by an anonymous buyer after it fetched a hefty 350,000 British pounds ($481,000) of sale price in an auction in London last month. “Returning Home! The portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, which was sold at a record price in

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‘Meşahirü’n-nisa’: Famous women in Islamic literature

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  By Nusrat Sidiq, Daily Sabah, 22, March 2021. Many female figures throughout Islamic history have been admired for their lives, knowledge and morals. A biographical work from Ottoman literature, ‘Meşahirü’n-nisa,’ illuminates the stories of 1,165 renowned figures among them International Women’s Day, marked on March 8, emerged in the early 1900s as part of

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Kashmir’s women artists paint in ‘black and white’

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  By Nusrat Sidiq, Anadolu, 1, April 2021. New age artists depict decades-long conflicts, related social issues through their art SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir “You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop,” Badarunisa Bhat, a 25-year-old artist in Indian-administered Kashmir, quotes Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi – a 13th-century

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Diana Picasso Explains Her Grandfather Pablo Picasso’s Favorite Paintings

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By Nadja Sayej News recently broke that a painting by Pablo Picasso is going to auction at a Christie’s sale in London on March 23. It’s a portrait of his muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, a model who became the mother of his child, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, and it’s expecting to fetch over $15 million. Paris-based art historian Diana Widmaier

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Scientists Use Laser Paintbrush to Craft Mini Version of van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’

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Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) has long captivated viewers with its fluid swirls of yellow, blue and white. Now, scholars have recreated the iconic Impressionist painting with the help of an unexpected tool: lasers. As Jennifer Ouellette reports for Ars Technica, researchers at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia, developed a “laser paintbrush” that applies color to metal

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These 7 African Women Poets Will Keep You Calm, Cool, and Collected for the Summ

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By Omnia Saed Here’s 7 of our favorite female writers who are reshaping poetry worldwide to hold you over this summer. When Beyoncé dropped Lemonade earlier this year, the world opened their ears to the brilliant work of the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire. But while the mainstream is only catching on to her now, Warsan has been a

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