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How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust
A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.
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This 17th-Century Dutch Painting Was Rescued From a Dusty Barn Attic in Connecticut. It Just Sold for More Than $7 Million
Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...
Lorna Simpson: Painting as a Weapon of Freedom
In a small but haunting survey at the Met, a celebrated conceptual artist shifts gears, with meteoric results.
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How Greek Painter Christoforos Asimis Turned Santorini’s Light into Art
Greek artist Christoforos Asimis, the acclaimed "painter of Santorini," has dedicated his life to capturing the unique magic ...
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A.I. Analysis Rewrites the Timeline of the Dead Sea Scrolls
By combining radiocarbon dating and artificial intelligence researchers are redating some of the fragments of the Dead Sea ...
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First Look: Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese
The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...
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Everything Revealed During The Xbox Games Showcase 2025
The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 took place this morning, revealing even more games as part of the Summer Game Fest streaming ...
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Eucharist foreshadowed in Old Testament writings
In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...