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Virtual Tour: Inside Brazil’s Museu Nacional, The Collection Before the Fire in 2018
From Google Arts & Culture: About Virtual Tour “You can take a virtual tour of the highlights of the Museu Nacional as it was here, a tour that of course includes a visit with the museum’s prized possession: the 12,000-year old Luzia, the oldest skeleton found in the Americas, whom you can see just as…
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Books: TASCHEN’s art catalog (new edition) is a massive 500-page edition that showcases the life and works of Jean-Michel Basquiat
From TASCHEN: Description IN A NUTSHELL Look closely at the complex signs and scribbles of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose paintings today retain the same freshness and validity as in the New York of the 1980s. This monograph in size XXL brings together exquisite reproductions of the artist’s most outstanding works, accompanied by texts by the editor…
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View: Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
From Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY …
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View: “A Great Day in Harlem,” Photo by Art Kane
From Open Culture: Sixty years ago, Art Kane assembled one of the largest groups of jazz greats in history. No, it wasn’t an all-star big band, but a meeting of veteran legends and young upstarts for the iconic photograph known as “A Great Day in Harlem.” Fifty-seven musicians gathered outside a brownstone at 17 East…
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New Course: The History, Presence, and Possibility of Black Museums
From the Smithsonian: Enrollment is now open for the Smithsonian Institution’s new online course, The History, Presence, and Possibility of Black Museums. The course will be offered online through the Harvard extension program for continuing education beginning January 30 – March 9, 2019. The last day to register without a late fee is Jan. 27, 2019. Division of Continuing Education…
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