scholarly

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“Seurat and the Sea,” a scholarly and astonishingly beautiful show now at the Courtauld Gallery, and organized by Karen Serres, the museum’s senior curator of paintings, fills that critical lacuna.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Fadiah wrote on X that being denied entry was "tantamount to a deliberate attack on my scholarly work".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The manuscript has received little scholarly attention, which Dr. Ilko believes is because its miracles were considered too rural in focus.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been rightly known until now for her immense scholarly work, establishing terms like “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” that now have grown into entire fields of study.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

No one now reads his scholarly disquisitions on the Tower of Babel, or on the Scribes and the Pharisees.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton