Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 29, 2023Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
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Books
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
January 27, 2023David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
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Art
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
January 14, 2023Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
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Books
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
January 13, 2023In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
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Art
Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
January 9, 2023De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
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Biography
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
January 8, 2023Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
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Africa
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
December 29, 2022Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
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Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
December 26, 2022Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
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Books
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
December 25, 2022The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
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Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
December 19, 2022All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...