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Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
August 17, 2021For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
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Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
August 16, 2021After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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The Weekly Listicle Is Rated NC-17
August 13, 2021Censors 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
August 7, 2021Put 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
August 5, 2021The 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
August 4, 2021Beginning 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
July 28, 2021Dickens’ 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
July 22, 2021De 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
July 20, 2021Mannequins 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
July 17, 2021Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...