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In 'Dreaming in Ensemble,' WPI professor explores how Black artists helped transform opera
WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
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Why the best modern artists returned to nakedness to find the truth
A small, dazzlingly concentrated exhibition focused on the 20th century nude at the Worcester Art Museum reveals that these modern ... affirm the self-assured sensuality of youthful male bodies. Two ...
Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, dead at 88
Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated interpretations of romantic ballads like “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” as well as her professional collaborations and ...
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‘Riefenstahl’ and the legacy of the most famous propagandist of the 20th century
Early on in Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” Leni Riefenstahl says that she believes the opposite of politics is art ... the most famous propagandist of the 20th century appeared ...
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Almine Rech Spotlights Marie Laurencin’s Singular Sapphic Vision
What truly sets her portrayals of feminine beauty apart from those of her male peers ... of the first half of the 20th century, who exhibited great living artists such as Picasso and Matisse.
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In ‘Wicked,’ they’re silver. But at Academy Museum color show, the ruby-red shoes take center stage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver ... paint films — frame by frame — early in the 20th century. These young women earned less than their male ...
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OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
L.H.O.O.Q. de-idealizes a woman into a sex object in the act of vandalizing a world famous masterpiece -- certainly ... Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), p. 153 (18) Robert Rosenblum, ...
'A Thousand Blows': Who were the Forty Elephants gang and their thief 'queen' Mary Carr?
They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...
The Women Who Are Reinventing R&B
A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.
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The best artworks of our time are in the medium of video
Film and television were the 20th century ... we’re more than half a century on from the birth of video art. And here’s the thing: If you asked me to name, say, the top five artworks of ...