| Good morning. I still remember the thrill I felt when I saw Dara Birnbaum’s “Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman” (1978–79) for the first time in an undergraduate art history class. Just under six minutes, the artist’s iconic, cacophonous deconstruction of footage from the classic superhero TV series was subversive, it was empowering, it was just … so cool. Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang remembers the enormous legacy of video, art, and feminism left behind by Birnbaum, who died last week. In two standout features today, Sarah Bond dives into new research quantifying the role of slavery in Pompeii's economic prosperity, and Michelle Young sits down with the last surviving heir of a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting at the crux of a decades-long legal battle. There’s more below, including the most artistic signs from anti-Trump May Day protests, a graphic novel about Eadweard Muybridge, and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at the Brooklyn Museum. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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 | | It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates. | Sarah Bond |
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 | | David Cassirer reflects on his family, their legacy, and the work at the center of a serpentine legal case that has wound up and down the US court system for the last 25 years. | Michelle Young |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE |  | | A book presents more than 110 pictures from Derby’s archive, offering a rich panorama of the key people and places behind the movement. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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MEMBER COMMENT | | Butch Murphy on “Clara Peeters’s Still Lifes Are Even Better Than the Real Thing” | | When I read Simon’s essays, it transports me into a classroom environment so quiet one could hear a pin drop while listening to every syllable of the professor’s in-depth understanding with attempts to provide me the capacity to not only appreciate but to instill the same capacity to create. |
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