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The Pollock And Picasso That Usually Live In A Vault In Tehran Came Out For A Brief Exhibition

Armen Nersessian BBC World Service Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images The collection includes Jackson Pollock’s Mural On Indian Red Ground It has been dubbed one of the world’s rarest treasure troves of art but few people outside its host country know about it. For decades, masterpieces by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol

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Why The Sudden Removal Of The T From The Stonewall Inn’s National Monument Website Is So Ominous

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Thursday night, the National Park Service removed the words “transgender” and “queer” from the web pages of the Stonewall National Monument in New York City. The move, taken in the wake of Trump’s

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The New Musical About Frederick Douglass And Abraham Lincoln Isn’t Meant To Be A History Lesson

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s controversial proposal of Linconia is one of many historical events revisited in the new stage show “3 Summers of Lincoln,” which begins performances

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Gilda Radner Was SNL’s First Cast Member, And One Of Its All-Time Best

Before John Belushi, before Bill Murray or Chevy Chase or Dan Aykroyd—before any of them, there was Gilda. Gilda Radner was the first performer Lorne Michaels hired for the cast of Saturday Night Live when it launched, in 1975. She was, at the time, one of the stars of The National Lampoon Radio Hour, the

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