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A lesson in managing uncertainty: digitizing the First German Autumn Salon
Image: Jenny Anger, First German Autumn Salon Reconstruction Project. BY JENNY ANGER Professor of art history, Grinnell College A trio of in ...
Let's hear it for the bee.
BY JAMES P. LENFESTEY Excerpts from the introduction to If Bees Are Few It is said there are twenty thousand species of bees in the world, a gen ...
On truthiness and trustworthiness: Why nonfiction is best defined as a literature of questions.
BY JOE SUTLIFF SANDERS University of Cambridge It’s a cliché that by the time one finishes writing a book, one hates it. Well, I have just finishe ...
Lookin' to get silly in Hibbing: Toby Thompson on Echo Star Helstrom, the "Girl from the North Country."
Image by Toby Thompson. Image by Echo Helstrom. BY TOBY THOMPSON Echo Star Helmstrom, widely thought to have been the inspir ...
Skol Vikings! (But don't break my heart again.)
BY ARMAND PETERSON Days later, Vikings fans are still talking about it, what some are already calling the “ Minneapolis Miracle .” With only ten ...
Modernism and the Memorial: Public remembrance in the US and Germany.
KATHLEEN JAMES-CHAKRABORTY Professor of art history at University College Dublin 2017 might turn out to be the year in which white Americans ceased ...
Posthumous posthumanism: Subverting the relationship between living and dead matter.
Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld, created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (HBO, 2016). Westworld reconceptualizes lived experience by asking what "counts ...
Foucault in the Contemporary Archive
CATHERINE M. SOUSSLOFF Professor of art history, visual art, and theory at the University of British Columbia Last spring, I was in Paris as a Visit ...
Reading for the holidays: Churches of Minnesota
We've got a lot of new titles to be excited about this year, from the oft-buzzed-about The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen to the beautiful early-19 ...
Before Sigurd Olson, and before Calvin Rutstrum, there was Howard Greene.
Camp scene from 1915 at Lake Vermillion, in the mist. Because there is a difference between the history we know and the stories w ...