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4 hours ago ago from Enfilade
Here’s a selection of new titles from the December 15th issue of the Michael Shamansky catalogue. Shamansky – online as artbooks.com – specializes in monographs, guides, and exhibition catalogues imported from European publishers. ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Item #104324 – Mary Sheriff, ed., Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), ISBN: 9780807833667, ...
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17 hours ago ago from Saffron Tree
In my London days, I used to take my children to the National Gallery for the Magic Carpet Story-telling sessions for under-5s. The little ones would all walk around the gallery looking for a carpet laid out in front of a painting chosen previously by the story-teller. One time it was St.George and the Dragon by Paolo Uccelo. The lady led the children to the carpet with great drama and proceeded to narrate a fantastic tale involving the ...
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1 hour, 58 minutes ago ago from thinking about poetry
Nicholas Rothwell's The Red Highway is my book of the year for 2009. No surprises to anyone who's heard me talk about this strange and beautiful book which is part travelogue, part biography, part history, part autobiography. It hasn't been universally loved. One reviewer wrote, in faint praise, that this book will appeal to “Readers who respond to a romantic, secular spirituality, who like stories laced with dream or reverie or who ...
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5 hours ago ago from Wild Things
There is a beauty in the picturesque and the pastoral, but for Robert Smithson, this was not enough. An American land artist born in 1938, Smithson sought to explore nature in its context with man. He felt that there is a continually transforming relationship between humanity and the landscape, and the more destructive this relationship, the better a place it was for his art. He sought locations that were scarred by industry, ...
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13 hours ago ago from the most well connected poor man in america
A Nobel War Speech? Did Obama lay the groundwork for an eventual strike against Iran? by William Kristol 12/21/2009, Volume 015, Issue 14 'I liked what he said. I talked too in my book about the fallen nature of man and why war is necessary at times.' Thus spoke Sarah Palin. The recipient of her praise? Barack Obama, for last week's Nobel Peace Prize address. There was a fair
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