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Washington Post Magazine

Dear celebrities (and everyone else, too): Stop wearing sunglasses at museums!

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Atlantic

Dating to save your tiny religion from extinction: Finding love within the Zoroastrian community

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Washington Post

Behind taxidermy display halls are lots of donors of (unsolicited) dead animals.

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Washington Post Magazine

The D.C. Peace Museum That Never Happened

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Religion News Service

The painting behind Taliban fighters in Kabul presidential palace is worth a thousand words

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Mosaic magazine

The Patronizing Censoring of Philip Guston

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Washington Post Magazine

How a Smithsonian researcher reinterpreted Rumpelstiltskin for the #MeToo Era

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Playboy

The Saint Andy Warhol: 15 minutes of ecclesiastical fame for Andy Warhol

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Washington Post Magazine

The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in D.C. museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume

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National Catholic Reporter

Art and beauty can carve a path through a fallen world

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Playboy

Infiltrating the CIA’s secret art collection

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Washington Post

Q: Their job is to stump you. Who are they? A: Trivia writers, of course.

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Wall Street Journal

A memorial that knows its biblical history

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Washington Post Magazine

How politicians get camera-ready: Stylists and media training

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artnet

Leonard Lauder on how vintage postcards can help us understand propaganda

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America magazine

Some of Europe’s top tourist destinations are homes to anti-Semitic imagery

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artnet

How Barbara & Aaron Levine became two of the most committed conceptual art collectors

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Mosaic magazine

The wreck of the Jewish Museum

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National Catholic Reporter

Marketing overshadows scholarship in museum display of alleged ‘St. Francis Missal’

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Washington Post Magazine

Why the baroque politeness of diplomatic notes is what the world needs now

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Religion News Service

Drawing of herring on a bialy gains audience in Bialystok, Hollywood (Interview with Mel Brooks)

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Chess Life magazine

Searching for Bobby Fischer’s legacy

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Washington Post

Earthquake? No damage. But what about loud music?

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Washington Post

Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond

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Religion & Politics

Confederate monuments and the power of absence

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Washington Post Magazine

The Museum of the Bible is winning over some of its biggest critics: Jewish scholars

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Washington Post Magazine

Those who say Edward Hopper is the artist of social distancing may be wrong

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