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The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
June 4, 2024Censors save the NC-17 rating for extra special cases, and in practice it feels like much...
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Madness and Mesmerism: Charles Deas Revisited
May 29, 2024Put as simply as possible, Matthews thought he was being tortured and his thoughts disrupted by...
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Art Review: Robert Adams: The Place We Live, Denver Art Museum
May 28, 2024The photographs in the retrospective are animated by the yearning for a sense of place, of...
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Art Review: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 27, 2024Beginning with paintings, drawings and a limited number of sculptures by such “wild men” as Matisse,...
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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
May 22, 2024Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
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Art Review: de Kooning: A Retrospective, MoMA
May 16, 2024De Kooning exhibited six "Bitch Goddess" paintings when most American men preferred to watch Marilyn Monroe...
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Maryhill Museum of Art, One Hundred Miles East of Portland
May 15, 2024Mannequins in pale satins and gauzy tulle pose in a lofty attic whose roof has been...
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Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
May 12, 2024Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
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Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
May 9, 2024More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
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Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 5, 2024Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...