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An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.
Read MoreIf James Madison was so verbose that his draft version of the First Amendment could be cut in half, then he can hardly be called an artist with words.
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Perhaps unintentionally, the show is a moral fable on the nature of true achievement: Milton Avery’s steady progress on his own path stands out in this age of online influences and the rabid pursuit of instant fame and material success.
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John Hersey emerges in this book as a disciplined journalist who held steadfast to an admirably singular goal.
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One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
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To modern sensibilities, Frederic Edwin Church’s field sketches and early studies, with their virtuoso spontaneity and unmediated naturalism, may have more appeal than his epic paintings.
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.
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The performer’s question is direct: has the talented orator anything to say about race in today’s America? The answer is a galvanizing yes.
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If this is a fable, is there a moral?
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Jazz Album Review/Commentary: “Don Quixote’s Adventures in the World of Jazz” — Is Jazz Intrinsically Quixotic?
It’s hard to think of music that is more foolishly impractical than jazz, even with its pursuit of lofty ideals.
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