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Todd Solondz’s lack of commercial appeal as a filmmaker is understandable. His movies deal overtly with some of the most uncomfortable aspects of American life.
It seems deeply appropriate that a superb book of essays by W.G. Sebald about his favorite writers should be his swan song.
The subjects of David Hockney’s portraits have been totally absorbed into his art and autobiography. “David Hockney Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA By Peter Walsh BOSTON, Mass.— The biggest crowds at the MFA’s “David Hockney Portraits” hover near a wall of large-format etchings titled “A Rake’s Progress” (1961-63). Based on a…
Whenever you hear greeting card bromides intoned with a straight face (it’s usually in scenes set in a hospital) you know that moral fuzziness isn’t far behind.
By Vincent Czyz In his latest book, acclaimed writer Orhan Pamuk has penned an intriguing memoir that focuses on his relationship with Istanbul, the city in which he has always lived. Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk. Knopf. Ottoman poets were fond of referring to Istanbul, then known to the world as Constantinople,…
Local examples of immersive aesthetic and sensual experimentation as forms of cultural experience.
This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
The variety of this exhibition amply proves that William Merritt Chase brought great painterly insight to much more than just the daily catch.
“Galileo’s Muse” is a gem of a book: shedding new light on a figure as well-examined as Galileo is no simple task. Author Mark Peterson does so with aplomb, while also telling a fascinating story of the evolution of mathematics and the arts.
To look back and forth from “Las Meninas (after Velázquez)” to the mirror that reflects it is to experience, simultaneously, a joy in David Ording’s accomplishment and a longing based in recognition of its source, which is love—of Velázquez, of labor, of painting.
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