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The First Art Newspaper on the Net   People visit the "In Focus: Protest" exhibition on July 1, 2021 at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition features images captured during periods of social struggle in the United States, including works by Dorothea Lange, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Davidson and John Simmons. Curated by Mazie Harris, the exhibition which opened this week will run until October 10, 2021. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP. LOS ANGELES, CA .-The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Protest, an exhibition featuring images made during periods of social struggle in...

Kim Frisbie Special to the Daily News Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt. Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into "herbals" as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century. In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color pla...

share-square-1294664 When many people think of orioles, a group of New World birds in the blackbird family, one of the first associations they make is baseball. The next is probably Baltimore. Put together, the city and brilliant orange-and-black bird have been linked for centuries, long before the baseball Orioles moved east from St. Louis in their current form, in 1954. There were professional Orioles ballclubs in Baltimore well before that, also: The first Baltimore Orioles franchise played in the American Association from 1882-91, before becoming one of the National League’s top teams f...