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(May 25, 2021 08:12)
Dressed to impress ✨ #DYK: Getting ready in the presence of others was an elite French practice known as "la toilette." In this 1776 painting, Joseph Siffred Duplessis references it depicting Madame de Saint-Morys at her dressing table. Learn more: https://t.co/rW9bx7sOwT https://t.co/8TdAV77gC7
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Thieves broke into an English castle and swiped $1.4 Million in royal artifacts, including Mary Queen of Scots’ rosary: https://t.co/GI8sna8ovc https://t.co/wt3ZUI0l92
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 07:17)
The Canadian landscape designer Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was affectionately known as the “Queen of Green,” and believed in the “therapeutic effects of greenery on the human soul” https://t.co/tlJdstagzx
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A mammoth book takes an immersive and intimate journey through the Brazilian Amazon https://t.co/Y5phReFiJg https://t.co/lWd0SQx8Zg
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 11:13)
Glimpse exquisite armor, ornate swords, and other finely crafted weaponry created over the course of 1,500 years in "Emperors, Artists & Inventors: Transformative Gifts of Fine Arms and Armor"—on view through February 21, 2022. https://t.co/oxPHcL4rAd
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Gucci celebrates its 100th birthday with an exhibition surveying Creative Director Alessandro Michele’s fantastical visions: https://t.co/MhslXn4iW0 https://t.co/LgaesFT7Hk
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Seeing Wong’s paintings and the clear-as-day love he felt for his neighborhood affirmed my own experiences growing up in San Francisco and concretized my mission as a storyteller. https://t.co/A7A3cFamsU
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 08:01)
The commissioners who were dismissed are believed to have helped shape an executive order issued by Trump called “Make Federal Buildings Great Again”, which mandated that all federal buildings be built in the Neoclassical style https://t.co/u56shOjBEZ
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 06:21)
As 3D modeling and online collection databases become more normalized, the colonial legacies and paternal policies which shaped acquisition can migrate from the physical to the digital realm. https://t.co/4drKVmGmgp
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Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey just gave $3.5 Million to San Francisco’s experimental program offering guaranteed income for artists: https://t.co/1foH9o3Z8q https://t.co/6oCZHBqiJ9
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Discover what's trending at auction this week, from Surrealism by Salvador Dalí to Minimalism by Ellsworth Kelly. https://t.co/5umtUmkGEL https://t.co/BRMRJ41bs7
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 09:20)
The theory that statesman and scientist Francis Bacon was the ghostwriter behind Shakespeare had a major influence on modern cryptography. https://t.co/aBQJcZL5Di
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Breathtaking Purple Sunset Over New York https://t.co/E42tlLN6OR https://t.co/L1nLe0a1Ae
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4 years ago
(May 25, 2021 07:42)
The chair of the US Commission of Fine Arts, Justin Shubow, and three colleagues—portraitist Chas Fagan, landscape architect Perry Guillot, and architect Steven Spandle—have been ousted by the Biden administration, with more diverse appointments made https://t.co/fif6zrZsV8
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