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SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
12/6/19
‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum
Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.
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11/10/19
Americans Were Too Stodgy for Art Nouveau
by Diana Muir Appelbaum
Art nouveau was the modern art movement that America almost entirely missed. Not only is it absent from our streets, it is largely missing from our museums, a void that a traveling exhibit, Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, now at the Walters Museum in Baltimore, is seeking to repair.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
8/29/19
New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town
At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
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4/2/19
ROOAARRRR: 66 Million Years of Tales about the Big, Bad T-Rex Dinosaur
by Bruce Chadwick
If you love dinosaurs and/or being chased by one, this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is for you. Bring the kids.
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