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"Nexus" at the Cleveland Museum of Art makes the case that the artist's devotion to both craft and social commentary has only deepened with time. Martin Puryear, Nexus, 1979. Alaskan yellow cedar, ...

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Dozens of scientists have banded together to pen scathing research letters to the journal Science about the publication of a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile ...

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