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Topic: Art History

Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. (Marco Bottigelli)

Upending the virgin girl sacrifice trope

Rae Hodge
National Gallery staff member Jean Tang poses next to the work Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, about 1623-5, during a photo call to preview the National Gallery's forthcoming Artemisia exhibition in London. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

AI deepfake porn: A case for vengeance

Rae Hodge
A picture taken at the Louvre Museum in Paris shows "The Raft of the Medusa", painted by Theodore Gericault (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images))

How AI is hijacking art history

Sonja Drimmer - The Conversation
Golden ratio Fibonacci spiral in Pan African colors (iStock/Getty)

The African roots of Swiss design

Audrey G. Bennett - The Conversation
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Visitors admire Rembrandt's Night Watch (1642), part of an exhibition of the all the Rijksmuseum's Rembrandts in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The year of Rembrandt

Jacquelyn N. Coutré - The Conversation
Ivanka Trump (Getty/Jim Watson)

Ivanka and her tower of crumbs

Preminda Jacob - The Conversation
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Delacroix at the Met

Claire Black McCoy - The Conversation
(Getty/Salon)

The Great American Videogame is here

Jason Rhode
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Vasari Corridor (Wikimedia)

Inside the Vasari Corridor

Noah Charney
Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini (Wikimedia)

Western art's debt to the Islamic world

Noah Charney
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper & Brothers)

Finding Cézanne in "Goodnight Moon"

Noah Charney
"Six Tuscan Poets" - Giorgio Vasari (Wikimedia)

Origin of the Ninja Turtle theory of art

Noah Charney
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Hugh Hefner (AP/Carlos Rene Perez)

Hefner & the art history of naked ladies

Noah Charney
Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

The myth of the art thief

Noah Charney
(Shutterstock/cla78)

Statue of Liberty: Still an icon?

Noah Charney
"Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Wikimedia)

Criminal Caravaggio on the run

Noah Charney
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"The Lute Player" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Wikimedia)

Caravaggio the criminal

Noah Charney
(Salon/Flora Thevoux)

How We Lost the Seven Wonders

Noah Charney
(Getty/sarah5)

Only human after all?

Noah Charney
Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl) (The MET)

The Met Python’s Flying Circus

Noah Charney
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Kathryn Hahn as Chris Kraus and Kevin Bacon as Dick in "I Love Dick" (Amazon Studios)

How good is Dick, anyway?

Noah Charney
(Wikimedia/AP/Salvatore di Nolfi/Salon)

Pixies and the Surrealists

Noah Charney
"Kauernde" by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is part of Cornelius Gurlitt's art collection (AP/Henning Kaiser)

Inside a Nazi art loot stash

Noah Charney
Jeff Koons near his sculptures "Michael Jackson and Bubbles," and "Amore" (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Did Koons really paint that?

Noah Charney
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