Artists Breathe New Life into Archives

Good morning. ☁️ Today, artists breathe life into archives, a new study suggests prehistoric artists

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, artists breathe life into archives, a new study suggests prehistoric artists deliberately reduced their oxygen to induce drug-like effects, and reviews of the art of Tiffany Sia and Lucía Vidales.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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Artists Breathe New Life into Archives By cutting, reframing, and layering, artists, including Rodell Warner and Alanna Fields, encourage a re-viewing of the past. Lise Ragbir

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Responding to pressure from local activists, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia released a statement apologizing for its Morton Collection, which includes stolen crania of enslaved people. A new study found that cave painters may have deliberately reduced their oxygen levels to induce “altered states of consciousness” while creating their work.

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Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance Slippery When Wet evokes the sociopolitical pressure-cooker that has manufactured Hong Kong’s culture of protest. Isabel Ling

Slow Bodies, Racing Hearts: Lucía Vidales’s Paintings of Our Changing Selves Pleasingly difficult to decipher, Vidales’s paintings evoke the paradoxes of a year defined by solitude. Valentina Di Liscia

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