I’ve collected a few historical highlights for your weekend reading — art, photography, economics, literature, women’s history, and libraries are all touched on.
Here are two art exhibits worth reading about, even if you can’t view them in person:
- “Caravans of Gold urges us to think of the medieval world as not just filled with knights and horses in armor but also of veiled nomads and their camels, burdened with riches.”
- “From Today Painting is Dead is an unmissable exhibition as it reveals how photography was not only a disruptive innovation in the art world but a revolutionary, popular tool that allowed people to record events, people, places, and objects.”
A comparison between Adam Smith and William Shakespeare.
A new look back at women’s suffrage.