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The Abyss of Recipes
Cassell’s Cyclopaedia of Mechanics and William Kentridge’s Second-Hand Reading By Xinyi Wen (@HPSWarburgian) Artist William Kentridge told an anecdote when talking about his video artwork Second-Hand Reading (2013). Once Kentridge asked someone what a common friend of theirs was doing and received the answer ‘busy making a tree-search’. A confusing term as it is, ‘tree-search’ triggered Kentridge’s imagination – one has…
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Gold – Using Cake to Crown Family Members
by Tiéphaine Thomason (@teaphaine) This is the third post in a three-part series for the Doing History Advent Calendar on the history of the senses and the gifts of the Magi. Gold is the last of the gifts presented by the Magi. It is often associated with Melchior (and on occasion, Gaspard). The verse associated…
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