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  • 2012-01-25ArnolfiniThumbnailThey do it with mirrors

    Mirrors aren’t supposed to lie; they’re supposed to show exactly what’s there. But in the hands of a brilliant artist, a mirror can show much more–and create a lasting mystery. From the hands of Jan van Eyck, Diego Velazquez and Edouard Manet, we look at three great paintings with three mysterious reflections.

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"Making a Case for the Pre-Clovis" Archaeologists push back the date the first Americans arrived on the continent with the discovery of a cache of 15,500-year-old artifacts in Central Texas. American Archaeology, Fall 2011.

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“This is one of those books you buy to give to someone else and decide to keep for yourself.”
- Krys Boyd, Host of KERA 90.1’s Think!, on Secret Lives of Great Artists

“Lunday writes without meanness. Light, tight and bright. As she says, these guys are still the sources of some of the world’s most beautiful music. If there’s a takeaway from the whole thing it’s the all-too-human spectacle of the travails of the artistic spirit trying to get on in a workaday world.”
– From the Oregon Mail Tribune, on
Secret Lives of Great Composers

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