Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 20, 2024Put them together as an integrated unit and you have a masterpiece. And in doing so,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doc by Mary Doria Russell
April 18, 2024It is the daily struggle of life that blights the lives of Russell’s protagonists. Ill-health and...
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Art
Art Review: Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
April 15, 2024While Robinson’s depiction of a pensive young woman in a sylvan setting hardly seems revolutionary today,...
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Books
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
April 12, 2024It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Health for Sale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 10, 2024Designed for short-term use to promote public health or sell the latest "miracle" drug, medical posters...
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Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 6, 2024Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
April 4, 2024Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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Art
Art Review: Gauguin: Maker of Myth, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
April 1, 2024“You know that I have Indian blood, Inca blood in me, and it’s reflected in everything...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Justice For Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
March 29, 2024Dworkin believes firmly in “cooperative” interpretation, reinforcing ethical precepts with insights from history, literature and philosophy...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
March 24, 2024The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...