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The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...
Jo Underhill/Barbican via CNN Newsource Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita’s large-scale scrolls are a modern reimaging of traditional Balinese Kamasan paintings.
Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence ...
Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.
By Tacita Quinn (CNN) — At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was made hundreds of years ago. From afar, her ...
Split into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, it makes clever use of the art center’s Curve gallery — a 90-meter-long (295-foot) space where her epic painted scrolls stretch into the ...
Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on traditional ...