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An interview with Jimmy Kaufman, Editor of “The Freedom Book”
July 25, 2024"The book is a conversation about freedom that seeks to inspire the reader to think for...
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Art for a New Gilded Age
July 22, 2024Museums are designed – and public museums are mandated – to act as the stewards of...
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Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
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John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 10, 2024Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
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The Forgotten Sculpture of John B. Flannagan
July 8, 2024His sculptures, like his wonderful Elephant of 1929-1930, or his Chimpanzee of 1928, were often carved...
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The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 8, 2024Explaining the daring additions of paintings by Matisse and Picasso to the Stein collection, Leo wrote...
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Art Review: Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful, Denver Art Museum
July 5, 2024The pair make their way through a crowded New York park. At the woman’s neck, a...
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Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 30, 2024But before he retreated into his private realm of race horses and ballet dancers, Degas was...
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Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
June 30, 2024It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
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Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
June 26, 2024Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...