Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy
Oscar-nominated documentarian Christine Choy embarks on a cigarette smuggling adventure.
Oscar-nominated documentarian Christine Choy embarks on a cigarette smuggling adventure.
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Before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee made a name for abstraction in visual art, another artist had already beat them to their discovery. But until very recently, her name was absent…
by Zach Dobson
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself. Images and artifacts found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and South America testify to…