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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

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Telesphoros at National Gallery's Heaven & Earth

In National Gallery exhibits, facial features of the Gaul Telesphoros in a Corinthian domestic statuette contrasts strikingly with those of the Dying Gaul. … Read the post Telesphoros at National Gallery's Heaven & Earth

Athenodora Christian stone from Athen’s Panathenaic Stadium

While regarded as an epitaph, the late-Roman Athenodora stone from Athens makes best sense as a dedication for an early Christian church. … Read the post Athenodora Christian stone from Athen’s Panathenaic Stadium

Yoga: The Art of Transformation begins with you

The Sackler Gallery presents visual art of yoga across two millennia. You must vitalize the physical-spiritual figures in the exhibit. … Read the post Yoga: The Art of Transformation begins with you

Peter Coffin re-animates hung paintings with video art

Peter Coffin’s Here & There exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum use video to create new experiential space in a gallery room containing 14 hung artworks. … Read the post Peter Coffin re-animates hung paintings with video art

illustrated books pervasive in 18th-century Japan

The Sackler exhibit, Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer’s Japanese Illustrated Books, shows woodblock-printed books (ehon) pervasive in Edo-period Japan. … Read the post illustrated books pervasive in 18th-century Japan

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