Las Meninas, by Diego Velázquez, 1656. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Las Meninas, by Diego Velázquez, 1656. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain. 

Arts & Letters

Volume III, Number 2 | fall 2010

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

- André Breton, 1937

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U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

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Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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Maris Pacifici, the first printed map to depict the Pacific Ocean, Abraham Ortelius, 1589.

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