Stories By Ed Voves
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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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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 21, 2022Writers 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
July 18, 2022Nicolson 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
July 11, 2022Had 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
July 4, 2022Art 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
July 1, 2022For 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
June 26, 2022Nature 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
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...