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By Gary Schwartz The Rijksmuseum has published the first volume in a series of scholarly catalogues of its collection of Dutch paintings of the 17th century. The two books, one of text and comparative illustrations, the other of color plates, are not only a model of collection catalogues, they are also an unguarded kaleidoscopic self-portrait…
Read MoreBy Bill Marx If the age turns away from the theater, in which it is no longer interested, that is because the theater has ceased to represent it. It no longer hopes to be provided by the theater with myths on which it can sustain itself. –- Antonin Artaud
Read MoreNow on the cusp of nine decades, Frank Stella is dedicated to visual experimentation, a kind of controlled and aesthetic atom-smashing,
Read MoreOne must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
Read MoreDoc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment
As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Read MoreLove stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry – it’s all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years of European history.
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Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
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This week’s poem: Ted Pearson’s Selections from “String Theory”
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger