Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
August 31, 2022If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
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History
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
August 18, 2022In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 13, 2022The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 12, 2022The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Architecture
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 8, 2022And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 7, 2022It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
July 30, 2022The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
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History
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 27, 2022Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 24, 2022Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 22, 2022Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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