How the Historical Greeks & Romans Made Lovely Purple Dye from Snail Glands

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A lot has been writ­ten about the lack of col­or within the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry. Our envi­ron­ments supplied prac­ti­cal­ly each col­or identified to man not so very way back — and in cer­tain eras, grant­ed, it obtained to be a bit a lot. However now, each­factor appears to have retreat­ed to a nar­row palette of grays…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

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When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…