July 23, 2021 • View in browser
Good morning. 🌤️ Today, director Garrett Bradley looks at tennis star Naomi Osaka, a 10th-century sculpture is being returned to Cambodia, and considering what it means that the first artists appear to have been predominantly women.
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Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible. | Anna Souter
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Sarah Goodridge's painting "Beauty Revealed" (1828) covered with Instagram logos.
Artists worry Instagram’s new sensitive content controls will impact the outreach of their work.
A looted 10th-century statue of the Hindu war deity Skanda is headed home to Cambodia.
- Also, Raven Story, the first US stamp designed by an Alaska Native artist, is now available on the USPS website!
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Busch-Reisinger Museum’s New Instagram Account Redefines the Boundaries of Its Collection
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Innovative Curatorial Projects in Prints and Drawings
From Betye Saar’s travel journals to early paper silhouettes, projects and exhibitions promise to be fascinating. | Lauren Moya Ford
What Art by Neanderthals Teaches Us About Our Own Gender Bias
A 2013 study which analyzed the size of handprints accompanying animal drawings found that women were more likely to have made them. | Hall W. Rockefeller
In M. Night Shyamalan’s New Thriller, a Beach Rapidly Ages Anyone Who Visits
Old literalizes the adage about how life passes you by in a flash, to horrifying effect. | Juan Barquin
How Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Handles the Pressure of Competition
Garrett Bradley’s Netflix docuseries explores the tennis star as a vessel for other people’s love and aspirations. | Bedatri D. Choudhury
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