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| New York Times - International Arts | | | | Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. | | by Jason Horowitz May 30, 2021 | | Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.A team of scientists, restorers and historians deployed bacteria to clean the Medici Chapel, adorned with Michelangelo’s sculptures of Dusk and Dawn. Left to right: Donata Magrini, Anna Rosa Sprocati, Daniela Manna, Paola D’Agostino, Monica Bietti and Marina Vincenti. | | | | | He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile | | by Laura Cappelle May 30, 2021 | | David Diop, an International Booker Prize finalist for his novel “At Night All Blood Is Black,” is among the writers whose work is helping France face its history with Africa.“Literature can be a way of moving people before they turn to rational explanations of history,” David Diop, the author of “At Night All Blood Is Black,” said. | | | | | | | | | How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade | | by Eric Cervini May 30, 2021 | | A detailed history of the fight for same-sex marriage, Sasha Issenberg’s “The Engagement” casts fresh light on the role of conservative churches in compelling gay rights activists to embrace the issue as a cause.A demonstration on Temple Square in Salt Lake City in 2008, against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ support for California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage. In great detail, Sasha Issenberg’s “The Engagement” demonstrates exactly how the church led the mammoth crusade in favor of the gay marriage ban. | | | | | |
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