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Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

Excavating Emily: Janice P. Nimura on What Draws Biographers to Certain Lives

And Why Some Mysteries Have to Stay That Way

By Janice P. Nimura | January 19, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Lets Martin Luther King Jr. do the talking on Critical Race Theory.

By Jonny Diamond | January 18, 2022

How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World

Michael Brooks on the Surprising Sophistication of “Finger-Counting”

By Michael Brooks | January 18, 2022

The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths

A Report from the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Jim Moske | January 18, 2022

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart | January 18, 2022

Émile Zola was a bad art friend.

Émile Zola was a bad art friend.

By Walker Caplan | January 14, 2022

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