Stories By Ed Voves
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Art
Art Review: Drawing Surrealism, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City
December 28, 2021Serious or concerted intellectual effort had no part in the process of creating Surrealist art –...
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Art
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
December 6, 2021Portraits at the Stock Exchange reveals a truth about the age of the Impressionists that often...
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Art
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
November 30, 2021The Pre-Raphaelites shared several treasured ideals, but their painting styles varied greatly. The two transcendent themes,...
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Art
Art Review: “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
November 23, 2021And what is true of Blagdon’s poignant attempt to thwart illness and disease is true of...
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Art
Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
November 17, 2021Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
November 8, 2021A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Best Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
November 7, 2021On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Books
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
November 2, 2021The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Art
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
October 30, 2021The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
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History
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
October 19, 2021No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...