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The Flogging of Mehdi Yarrahi
In 2023 the singer Mehdi Yarrahi was arrested in Iran for releasing a song inspiring women to take off their hijabs. In the Islamic Republic
Turquoise Mountain, Duchamp, & the USAID.
Some years ago under the auspices of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Afghanistan, an art teacher from the UK lectured bewildered Afghan women on a
Thomas Crawford and his Statue of Freedom
After his January 20, 2025 inauguration, President Trump addressed the nation in a speech he delivered at Emancipation Hall in the US Capital Visitor Center.
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A National Historic Landmark?
On April 23, 2014, the US Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, and the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Jonathan B. Jarvis, announced
Chuck Close & New Realism
In the early 1970’s I came under the influence of those artists now known as the New Realists, or Photo-Realists. At the time I was
Two Very Different Diamond Rings
Two very different diamond rings are the focus of artworks currently being discussed in the art world and beyond – Blue Diamond, a sculpture by