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Congratulations #LouiseGlück! Yesterday, Glück was awarded the 2020 #NobelPrize in #Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

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#HappyBirthday #Instagram! Ten years ago today, Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Instagram is the 4th most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.

Image: Original Instagram filters in 2011. Image by Jessica Zollman.

#ThisDayinHistory #TransformationTuesday

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#TodayinHistory in 1011, Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking #Ælfheah, also known as #Alphege, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.

Image: St. Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, is asked for advice, from a 15th-century #illuminatedmanuscript

#ThrowbackTuesday

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This #SpotlightSaturday, we are celebrating #IsamuNoguchi (1904-1988), who was a Japanese-American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades.

Learn more from his book, Noguchi: East and West at https://t.co/fgGtEMwm5R

Image Credit: Keio University

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#Surrealism in #LatinAmerica provides new Latin American–centric scholarship about the region’s impact on surrealism. It reconsiders the relation between #art and #anthropology, casting light on the aesthetics of “primitivism."

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#TodayinHistory the #TreatyofBasel concludes the #SwabianWar in 1499.

Image: The Milanese envoy Galeazzo Visconti presents his peace proposals at the city hall of Basel. From the #illuminatedmanuscript #LuzernerSchilling, written by Diebold Schilling the Younger in 1513.

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This #SpotlightSaturday, we are celebrating the work of #CaiGuo-Qiang. In #LaddertotheSky, Cai ignited a 500-meter-long ladder made of rope and gunpowder, in a fishing village nestled in his hometown Quanzhou, China.

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In 1915, San Francisco hosted a world’s fair that drew more than 18 million visitors to a 635-acre wonderland of exhibits.

Take 45% OFF A Collection of Pagodas: 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition at https://t.co/BO457HuoUl

#Chinese #Tibetan #Nepalese #Pagoda

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#TodayinHistory in 1894, #MeijiJapan defeated #QingDynasty China in the #BattleofPyongyang.

Image: Battle of Ping Yang: The Routing of the Chinese Army by Johann Schonberg in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection (1894)

#KoreanHistory #ChineseHistory #JapaneseHistory

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#LiuBolin first became invisible in 2006. When the village where he worked was demolished, he protested by camouflaging himself with acrylic paints. He photographed this act, marking the first of his Hiding in the City series.

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Drawing examples from Christian and Buddhist traditions, Yi-Fu Tuan explores the placelessness of religious experience. With photographs by Martha Strawn, this book is thoughtful and quietly beautiful.

Save 60% off Religion: From Place to Placelessness at https://t.co/pUEA9lB9yA

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#HappyBirthday to Emperor Xuanzong!

Image: Detail of Zhang Guo Having an Audience with Emperor Tang Xuanzong (張果见明皇), ink and color on silk handscroll, by Ren Renfa (1254-1327), from the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.

#TodayinHistory #ChineseHistory #ChineseArt

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Savoring the last taste of summer with #printmaker, Chen Qi's artworks. This #SaturdaySpotlight, we are thinking about the #woodblock print, The Water (2014).

View more of his works from his book at https://t.co/alJQFVDNzB

#ChenQi #ChineseArt #ContemporaryArt #Printmaking

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#YokoOno created #AnInvisibleFlower when she was just nineteen years old, at the very start of her artistic career.

Image from An Invisible Flower, printed in 2011 by Chronicle Books.

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#ThisDayinHistory, on September 1st, 1914, Martha the last known living passenger pigeon passed away at the ripe old age of 29. She was named "Martha" in honor of the first First Lady Martha Washington.

#Martha #EctopistesMigratorius #ExtinctSpecies #AnthropogenicExtinction

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To artist #MiaoXiaochun, water and life are interdependent. As #WuHung writes, his body "serves as the neutral element connecting works of art created in different times-a process which generates new work on old themes."

Learn more at https://t.co/2FiRiHCVK1

#SpotlightSaturday

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Check out the powerful works of poet #PhoebeWang in Admission Requirements.

"Don't limit yourself to the space provided," she writes in 'Application Form.

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#Poem #Poetry #AsianCanadianWriters #ParagonBookGallery

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#HappyBirthday to the #DorotheaTanning! Born on August 25th, 1910, Tanning was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet.

Image: Third Peril (Troisième péril) from The 7 Spectral Perils (Les 7 périls spectraux), 1950, #Lithograph

Image Credit: #MOMA

#ThisDayinHistory

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This #SpotlightSaturday, we are shining light on artist #LeeKrasner, an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century.

Learn more about her work at https://t.co/MBu2NamiEj

Image: Mysteries, 1972

#AbstractExpressionism #Art #Painting

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The Gift of Spiderwoman: Southwestern Textiles is on sale now! Save 50% off this beautiful book at https://t.co/gemawf1jfJ

Image: Navajo Child's Blanket, c. 1870-1875

#SouthwesternTextiles #Spiderwoman #Navajo #NavajoWeaving #TextileArt #ParagonBookGallery