Originally published in 1923, the works were slated to enter the public domain — meaning others are free to adapt and otherwise use them — in 1999. But Congress extended the copyrights for 20 more years.
Art
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Martin D’Arcy and the Art of English Catholicism
The legacy of and English Jesuit and the world class collection he brought to Oxford
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What Michelangelo’s flawed Pietà teaches us about Mary
If, so often, the sad fate of women is to bear what men have wrought, Mary does this like no other.
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HBO’s “The Price of Everything” holds a mirror up to the modern art market
Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Price of Everything” features a veritable Greek chorus of modern-art market luminaries.
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The enduring strangeness of American conspiracy theories
A bleak alchemy is and always has been at work in the United States, binding documented whoppers to a wider, wilder paranoia.
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Art history’s favorite Catholic critic, Sister Wendy Beckett, dies at 88.
Sister Wendy Beckett, an art historian and critic who rose to prominence on TV late in life, has died. She was 88.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Mary, Moses and the miracles of Advent
Miracles surround us; burning bushes keep revealing the Lord’s work. But we need to stop and notice.
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A pregnant pause: Mary and the Annunciation
Fewer than 200 words are attributed to Mary in Scripture, but those words have inspired innumerable prayers, hymns, sermons and other devotional practices, perhaps none more than her words at the Annunciation.
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Andy Warhol’s camouflaged Catholicism
Behind the camouflage of celebrity, who was the real Andy Warhol?
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How to experience the Bible in a digital world
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.