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[Tweet by @medievalpoc reads: People of color are not an anachronism. Art history can be a mirror for everyone, you just have to keep looking. 

Portrait of a Young Woman, form. att. Jean-Etienne Liotard. |  Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer.]

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Van Gogh Museum Collection

Step into Van Gogh's world. Explore the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

“Images of the Van Gogh Museum collection up to and including A4 size in TIF format may be downloaded and distributed for non-commercial use...”

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Magdalena Frackowiak at Viktor & Rolf F/W 2007

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do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these

and this

until I did my hair this morning and 

oh

welp

you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we’re still going to find ourselves

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While Calvin Klein's pieced and quilted dresses made perhaps the most explicit and memorably quilt-y splash, the truth is that Raf Simons was joined by a whole host of designers whose patchworked, pieced-together and subtly puffy looks referenced quilts in the past two seasons. Dior, Prabal Gurung, Tibi, Coach, Off-White, Mara Hoffman and Isabel Marant have all joined in on the trend in one way or another.

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The Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards Committee has started investigations into the following areas:

Systems for the creation of motion graphics for motion picture content

Remote, distributed, secure and collaborative review frameworks of dailies and sequences

2D, multi-layer, raster, image editing and digital paint systems used in motion picture production

Dense-mesh accurate animated facial geometry capture

Texture layout toolsets

Efficient, sequence-based paint and rotoscoping toolsets

Capture of facial appearance for photorealistic rendering

Lavalier microphones widely used in motion picture production

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Guo Pei, fall/winter 2010

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In the interest of defining their terms and presenting their research in a way that audiences outside academia can understand and incorporate into their work, the Healthy Buildings team have released an exhaustive list that details the simple foundations of making a building healthy.

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Day dress, ca. 1880, by Augustine Martin.

“This dress bears the label of Augustine Martin and was purchased at the Philadelphia dry good emporium Darlington, Runk & Co. in 1880. The success of the House of Worth paved the way for many other French couture houses such as Emile Pingat, Jacques Doucet, and Ernest Raudnitz. Even a relatively obscure maker such as Augustine Martin benefited from the success of Worth - a Parisian import was prized even if from a less established name.”

(From Drexel University)