Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
May 28, 2020Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
May 27, 2020Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
May 25, 2020Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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History
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
May 20, 2020Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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Art
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
May 16, 2020Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
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History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
May 13, 2020For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
May 11, 2020Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
May 9, 2020It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
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Art
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
April 28, 2020For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
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Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
April 20, 2020The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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