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Good morning. ☁️ Today, artists breathe life into archives, a new study suggests prehistoric artists deliberately reduced their oxygen to induce drug-like effects, and reviews of the art of Tiffany Sia and Lucía Vidales.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Artists Breathe New Life into Archives

By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past.

Lise Ragbir

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Bisons painted on the walls of the Covaciella cave in Spain (image via Wikimedia Commons)

Responding to pressure from local activists, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia released a statement apologizing for its Morton Collection, which includes stolen crania of enslaved people.
A new study found that cave painters may have deliberately reduced their oxygen levels to induce “altered states of consciousness” while creating their work.

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Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance

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Slow Bodies, Racing Hearts: Lucía Vidales’s Paintings of Our Changing Selves

Pleasingly difficult to decipher, Vidales’s paintings evoke the paradoxes of a year defined by solitude.

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