Video showed water coursing down the front of the glass case protecting the fabled painting, which was unharmed, according to a gallery press release, as were the six other canvases nearby.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Sep. 2026
Her earliest textured paintings were relatively simple, but flowers and bold colors quickly began taking over her canvases.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
18 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.
Civil litigation can drag on for years, frequently ending in settlements reached at the eleventh hour, just before a trial begins.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2026
More ambitiously, the roadmap calls for the Bank of Russia and the Central Bank of Iran to develop the use of central bank digital currencies for cross-border settlements.
Homeless encampments across Pittsburgh remain well below the record levels seen in 2024, but recent county data shows an increase in outdoor homelessness this summer after nearly two years of lower counts.
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Gabby Sartori,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2026
Most of them have returned to Morocco, but many remain in the enclave, with some living in tent encampments on the beach.
Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
Yellowstone National Park, which governs a portion of the Thorofare but not Atlantic Creek, where most people fish in June, requires backcountry campers to purchase and reserve campsites ahead of time.
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Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
23 Sep. 2026
Campsites Starved Rock’s 133 campsites book quickly, especially on weekends from May through October.
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