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Review: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Archibald Motley was born in 1891 in New Orleans. His travels would lead him over the years from Bronzeville in Chicago, to a year in Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship, to Mexico in the company of his nephew, the writer Willard Motley, and through January 17 of next year in an exhibit at the Whitney… Read more
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La Ville Lumiere
360 degree panoramic view from The Eiffel Tower Paris was founded in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic people called the Parisii, who gave the city its name. By the 12th century, Paris was the largest city in the western world. Paris is the home of the most visited art museum in the world,… Read more
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Review: The Vesper Project by Titus Kaphar
The artist Titus Kaphar has created something simultaneously fascinating and creepy as hell in his installation “The Vesper Project,” on display through December 13 at the Katzen Art Center museum on the campus of American University in Washington, DC. In the New Haven-based artist’s telling, a man named Benjamin Vesper experienced a psychotic break, attacked… Read more
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Review: The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
The Unfortunatesby Sophie McManus is a stunningly self-assured debut that rewards its readers with a highly polished gem of a book. This contemporary novel, told over the course of one year, assumes the qualities of a novel of epic scope through its author’s skillful telling. The emotional heart of The Unfortunates is the character Iris,… Read more
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Away From The Numbers
I downloaded the first album by The Jam, “In The City,” a couple of weeks ago. I’d never heard it before but it sounded like the kind of thing I’d like, and it is. On my way to work last week “Away From The Numbers” came up on my iPod and stopped me in my… Read more
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Your High-Wire Act
Watching you negotiate your mundane existence is like watchingA performer on a tightrope:FascinatingFrighteningBreathtaking Such otherworldly balance and poiseSuch easy fearlessness How do you do it?It must have come at an early age,The fires that forged your steelThe earthquakes that trained your stepsThe weakness that made you strong I wonder sometimes if you ever regret learning… Read more
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