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When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill was forced to close her Parisian gallery and go into hiding during the Occupation of France, she had already helped build the careers of artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Diego Rivera, as well as female including painter Suzanne Valadon, African-American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller…

Be it with its curling tendrils or because of its desirable properties, the cucumber is defined by motion: vertical, horizontal, geographical, and digital. The post Cucumber: The Plant That Moves More than You Think appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

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Telegraph cables let chess clubs stage matches across continents, linking players and spectators in a new kind of long-distance competition. The post The First E-Sports? Chess by Telegraph appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

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