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1 week agoPoetry Challenge: Memorize The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Memorizing poetry is enjoyable and can shift perspectives on love and the universe.
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1 month agoGainsborough's Pride and Prejudice
Lorena Bradford started monthly tours in American Sign Language, established a program for individuals with memory loss, and brought in medical students to learn soft skills to apply in their caregiving. 'I was a sub-department of one,' she joked to writer Emma Cieslik, who spoke with Bradford over Zoom and at the NGA about her own circuitous path into the profession, and the future of the field of museum accessibility.
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1 month agoTudor Courtiers Exchanged Portrait Miniatures as Love Tokens. Centuries Later, New Research Is Unlocking the Secrets of These Intimate Artworks
Nicholas Hilliard, England's first internationally famous native-born artist, created exquisitely detailed miniature watercolor portraits on vellum that served as portable intimate keepsakes and diplomatic gifts in Elizabethan England.
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1 month agoArtist Rose Wylie: "You Have to Have Self-Belief if You Paint Big"
Rose Wylie, at 91, celebrates her largest retrospective at the Royal Academy, featuring 90 paintings spanning her extraordinary career as a late-blooming artist who resumed painting in her fifties after raising children.
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1 month agoPreviously Unseen Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait Goes on View for the First Time
Unlike Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelite paintings of winsome maidens surrounded by flowers, the 1877 chalk portrait of his sister offers a flat, realistic impression. She wears an impenetrable expression and dull-colored clothing that blends into an unadorned background. The somber tone is the product of family tragedy: Christina remains in mourning following the death of her older sister Maria, a writer and Anglican nun, in 1876.
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2 months ago'The good, the bad and the ugly': a short history of how artists depict the female body
Public visual culture simultaneously overexposes and marginalizes the female body: abundant naked female imagery on buildings contrasts with few monuments honoring named women.
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2 months agoVelvet, rank and rebellion: Revisiting Thomas Gainsborough's world of art at the Frick Collection | amNewYork
Gainsborough's portraits staged Georgian power through clothing, lineage, and painterly technique to construct and preserve social status and family reputation.
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