Tag: politics

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12/27/2013

Greek Revival

In English for the first time, Giacomo Leopardi’s extraordinary 19th century diary Zibaldone is an unexpected window on the American relationship with the ancient world.

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12/20/2013

Burn the Paintings

Is iconoclasm anything more than the senseless destruction of art?

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12/18/2013

Inside the the Régie d’Opium

In French Indochina in 1925, Harry Hervey examines men in their worst role: that of an altruist. An excerpt from the newly released

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11/25/2013

In the Buff

The naked woman in art isn’t unusual, but we have trouble viewing the male body as a sexual, or artistic, object.

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