Stories By Ed Voves
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Egypt
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 8, 2025The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
December 23, 2024The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
December 15, 2024Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
December 9, 2024A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
November 27, 2024Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
November 16, 2024The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...
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Art
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...