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An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa's painful colonial history, which still echoes today.

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Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck.

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