The auction includes canvases by Van Gogh and Cézanne, which are alone estimated to bring in $180 million and $120 million, respectively.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
30 Sep. 2026
There is Adnan, steadily and unhesitatingly marking up pages in ink, or scraping pigment onto canvases with a palette knife, creating simplified, color-rich forms drawn from nature and memory.
By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.
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Hikmat Mohammed,
ARTnews.com,
28 Sep. 2026
In the 1930s, the Nazi government used a variety of forms of public data including tax returns and census records to help identify Jews who would be rounded up and sent to concentration camps where millions were killed.
However, in the 7th century, this all vanished; the temples were abandoned and later looted, and Kea never again revived its trade or harbor settlements.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Oct. 2026
Boulder, Colorado, is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers.
The state mandated that these policies be strengthened after large rallies and encampments protesting the ongoing war in Gaza swept through college campuses in 2024.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2026
Justifying the use of force on their campuses, schools primarily deferred to just this idea of protocol, citing arcane policy mandates to disband encampments and occupations so that academic production could resume its flow.
Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
Luther Pass Overflow and Watson Lake campgrounds, which are currently free, would charge $20 for a single site.
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Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2026
Lume That said, fitting a toilet room inside one's smallest, most affordable floor plan is a win in itself, particularly for buyers looking to stray from organized campgrounds with central bathrooms.
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