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In 1942, Executive Order 9066 forced over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. Photojournalist Lucile Dandelet documented the experience of families in Los Angeles preparing for this forced relocation. Each tells the story of people forced to give up everything. https://t.co/W87o3ipPKd

The first USPS stamp designed by an Alaska Native artist features a trickster raven as it steals the sun https://t.co/Yi04qhszlD https://t.co/r8IVBdGLtg

Inflatable couture by Fredrik Tjærandsen #fredriktjaerandsen fredriktjaerandsen

Rainy night by jingzhiyong #jingzhiyong

In an astounding discovery, archaeologists in Alaska have uncovered Italian glass that came to America decades before Columbus: https://t.co/FTjqDZ7aRF https://t.co/9N573ZDgfV

Tokyo’s Kadokawa Culture Museum houses an arresting Kengo Kuma-designed Bookshelf Theater https://t.co/HpiTdRppuK https://t.co/N8mddlRk95

These photographs of the Parthenon covered by a rare snowstorm like a magical ancient wedding cake are going viral: https://t.co/5DzCJ2mFcH https://t.co/qqKsRX23iZ

No Such Luxury by lynetteyiadomboakye #lynetteyiadomboakye

Burning incense fulfilled reciprocal relationships between humans and the divine in 7th–12th century Central America. On this reptilian incense burner, the decorations mimic the shape of smoke that would have emanated from it. Learn more: https://t.co/q8504xrQQ3 https://t.co/anMxFH0y9N

Black photographers have contributed endlessly to fashion photography, capturing the self-expression and resistance of Black style. Through nuanced images, artists remind us of the role that Black style plays in preserving African diasporic histories: https://t.co/Q52AmXOK7S https://t.co/ozmEqoCxmt

Happy birthday to Lari Pittman! Swipe through to see Pittman over the years: with Shaun Caley Regen in 1993; with his painting 'Once A Noun, Now A Verb #1' for Documenta X, 1997; in ‘Orangerie,’ his seminal salon-style survey at Regen Projects's former location in West Hollywood, recreated at the Hammer Museum for its 2019 retrospective of Pittman's work, ‘Declaration of Independence' (photo by Allen J. Schaben). #LariPittman shauncreg #birthday #Orangerie #DeclarationofIndependence #RegenProjects hammer_museum

The soul is the mirror of the divine 🪞 polish it so that heavenly pictures of the unmanifest arise 🌅 .•°¤*¯`★´The Pillars of Wisdom: Installation of Nine Elements´★`*¤°•. #monirshahroudyfarmanfarmaian jamescohangallery #areanyc

"'Goya’s Graphic Imagination'...offers a vital tonic from an artist with (to our eyes) all the right political commitments: horrified by violence, revolted by unearned privilege, standing up for freedom and knowledge and rights for all." — @nytimes https://t.co/LAteNjKKC6

Artwork - Blue Mushroom, Me, digital painting, Procreate/iPad, 2021

Dog, me, paper, 2021