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Paris la nuit (Paris by night), 1951 by Portuguese Modernist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva #WomensArt https://t.co/H8LChZMxj3

A #MusicMonday of epically ancient proportions! This lute—crafted around 200–500—is one of only four of its kind to survive. The indentations on its soundbox (that base area) suggest that it may be an ancestor of the guitar. 🎸 🎶 Learn more: https://t.co/hiXb0iIVQy https://t.co/0VH6SN3Gon

“These formal but casual street portraits became a space for the Black subjects to assert themselves and their presence in the world, with their gaze meeting the viewer’s on equal footing,” says Dawoud Bey about his work. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/dwmA1cAjQs

Cutest Baby Sea Turtle 🐢🌊 by tj.marten 🎵 Austin Farwell - High Above https://t.co/VEfkWQrNRp

New renderings allow us to explore three unbuilt masterpieces by Frank Lloyd Wright. https://t.co/43hto4m4Dt

European expressionist painter Marianne Werefkin, Night time fishing (c.1919) #WomensArt https://t.co/W9yi3ESnYR

In 1860 on the Sunday after #AbrahamLincoln's presidential nomination, Leonard Wells Volk created molds of his face and right hand. Lincoln held a broomstick—a prop he improvised upon Volk’s suggestion he hold something cylindrical resembling a document. #PresidentsDay https://t.co/pXQybC4eIA

Winners of the 2021 Drone Photo Awards https://t.co/peygXqM08E https://t.co/5mmc8q4K9B

The US government is revising the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act with the goal of increasing its enforcement https://t.co/7rdwsTp6jV

With “Toni Morrison’s Black Book,” curator Hilton Als explores the impact of Morrison's intellectual and literary pursuits on arts and letters. https://t.co/zS5hvc6nWp

Artist Lieve Jerger utilises her Flemish grandmother's oak bobbins and copper wire to create her artworks, made using the same technique as making lace #WomensArt https://t.co/cScvmopnKV

Glimmering examples of Korean lacquerware with mother-of-pearl inlay await you in "Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer." ✨ See nearly 30 outstanding works from the 12th century to the present through July 5. https://t.co/yY8bHNbgRW

He shot these portraits with Polaroid Type 55 positive/negative film. This instantaneously produced a photograph he could give to the subject, plus a detailed negative from which additional prints could be made.

After rigorous review, a controversial historic mural in Tate Britain’s café will go back on public view this year: https://t.co/V8EE7bUjc1 https://t.co/9CcSqzdyVp

Dolomites in 50 Shades of Grey https://t.co/M6FsnwwvCj https://t.co/dlnGNjbYpF https://t.co/9SoNGLtxYd