How a Dutch Painting Dominates the Way We See a 17th-Century Lynching

Good morning. ☀️ Today, work from the Dutch Golden Age teaches us something about paintings and accur

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Good morning. ☀️ Today, work from the Dutch Golden Age teaches us something about paintings and accuracy, photographs of a Polish Ghetto are donated, a critical look at the popular TV series WandaVision.—Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

How a Dutch Painting Dominates the Way We See a 17th-Century Lynching Jan de Baen’s “The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” has become the dominant visual representation of the brothers’ lynching, but whether it deserves this honor is debatable. Tim Brinkhof

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A new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that over 160 Confederate symbols were removed in 2020, nearly all following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired photos by Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross, who secretly documented the brutal living conditions in a Polish ghetto to leave a record of atrocities committed by the Nazis. Dr. Anthony Fauci donated his 3-D model of COVID-19, which he used during briefings to lawmakers and the press throughout the pandemic, to the Smithsonian.

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