Art and Culture

© Estate of David Hockney. Edition of 75. Photograph by Richard Schmidt.David Hockney, Contrejour in the French Style, 1974. Etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint.David Hockney, who died at 88 in June, became famous as a young artist…
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Ten years ago, when Claire Mander was studying for an art history MA at the Courtauld Institute in London, she stumbled upon the neglected roof terrace of nearby Temple underground station. She found herself strangely drawn to the…
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It was a strongly worded review, and Joyce Carol Oates, for one, isn’t having it. “Oates said she would have expected a translator, whose role she described as having subjectivity, to be more tolerant.” – The New York Times…
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Current bills “would extend the civil statute of limitations for criminal sexual conduct claims, create a one-year revival window for lawsuits that are currently time-barred and eliminate the civil statute of limitations when a…
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Perhaps the bike-loving, gardening, SCUBA-diving actor is having what might be called another moment, a few years after Past Lives garnered her some attention. – The New York Times Source link
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Av5BdT_iM As readers of this blog must be aware – perhaps with interest, perhaps with mounting annoyance – I have become obsessed with the elusive phenomenon of “feeling it.” It’s my impression…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4-FYEPf3A Open Cul­ture read­ers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the YouTube chan­nel that teach­es every­thing you need to know about sub­jects like world his­to­ry, U.S.…
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My two years of high school Latin got me to Julius Caesar’s account of his exploits in the Gallic war Commentarii de Bello Gallico, written in a straightforward, rather simple style. Unfortunately, I never took third-year Latin, which…
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