The Lost Louvre of Uzbekistan

(Guardian Art) – Suzanne Moore:

This museum in a bleak outpost has one of the world’s greatest collections of avant-garde art, rescued from Stalin’s clutches by an electrician. But now it needs a rescue of its own. …

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The Jew of Malta

(Good Tickle Brain) – Mya Gosling:

Everyone is familiar with Shakespeare’s Problematic Potentially Anti-Semitic Jewish Play, right? But did you know it’s a comparatively warm and fuzzy affair compared to Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, written around six years earlier? …

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