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Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

The structures are the last physical remnants of one of the largest free Black communities established before the American Civil War. “These houses are from the mid-19th century, between 1840 an ...

With the vinyl revival upon us, artists are enhancing new albums with old tricks ... are available on a special type of ...

To that end, this year the Dallas Museum of Art jointly acquired Garrett Bradley’s 2019 video “America” with Tate Modern in ...

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