Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
June 24, 2022It 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
June 5, 2022For 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
May 16, 2022The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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Books
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 12, 2022As 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
April 28, 2022The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Books
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 21, 2022Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Art
Art Review: Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 14, 2022A dark mass of ominous clouds invades the blue sky in La Grande Bacchanale. In Et...
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Art
Art Review: Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery Princeton University Art Museum
April 3, 2022Zhang transformed Mr. Quaker into Chairman Mao five years after he emigrated to the United States....
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Asian American
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
March 28, 2022As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...