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What Can Medical Students Learn from the Art History of Epidemics?

By M. Jordan Love

It is an unusual feeling as a medieval art specialist for my subject to suddenly feel globally significant. I suspect some of my colleagues in Renaissance art feel this as well. For those of us who have studied art created after the Black …
Quantifying a Commitment to Representation

By Matthew McLendon

I realized last summer that after twenty years in the museum field, I felt deeply frustrated. When I enrolled in my first museum studies classes in the late 1990s, there were audible and inspiring calls to increase diversity in museums. …

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