Bill Reid’s Haida grizzly bear honoured in new minting
Physical currency has long been a means for a region to portray its culture, history, and values. While the most common images on the majority of currencies are politicians and […]
Penn Museum to repatriate skulls of enslaved people held in the Morton Cranial Collection
The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Museum has announced it will repatriate a number of crania that belonged to enslaved peoples. The skulls are part of a larger collection of more […]
Three women artists pushing ceramics forward
Ceramics have long been classified as craft work and for thousands of years, people have created ceramics for use or decoration and the line between the two has often been […]
Thanks to astronomy, researchers in Texas figure out the time, date, and year of Vermeer’s “View of Delft”
Nothing if not technical, Vermeer is known for his expert handling of light and shadow, which has mesmerised many for centuries. However, even today, not a lot is known about […]
The REALM Project sheds light on how long the COVID-19-causing virus can live on library materials
Social distancing and other safety precautions have adjusted the way visitors experience museums, galleries, and more as lockdown restrictions have been relaxed. However, for libraries, whether it be a public […]
Descendants of Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Thomas Jefferson partake is photographic series recreating their ancestors
Europe began as the main focus of “The Descendants,” a series of works created by British photographer Drew Gardner. About 15 years ago, Gardner started tracking down and photographing the […]
A collaborative performance work will see $500 in sanitised dollar bills handed out on silver platter in East Hampton
Later this summer, artist Katherine McMahon and musician Ray Angry will bring together continued concerns about COVID-19 and ongoing issues of economic inequality in a performance art piece. The work […]
