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… a modest subset of the cache, I did so with a thrill of complicit transgression. The paintings are ex-votos, meaning … or illness that befalls ordinary human beings or animals. Each commemorates the miraculous intervention and … artists and collectors as inspirational artifacts. It was Diego Rivera who first deemed them valuable, preferring to …
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… artist, an actress whose versatility allowed her to charm audiences, wow critics, and entertain viewers whether performing for … helmet was one of the first things I noticed. It was completely shattered, cracked and distorted into multiple …
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… seemed easy enough, but Orozco sometimes projects the studied geniality of someone who decides in each moment whom he … more to master the long-range ones, which can travel up to 260 yards before returning to the launching spot. These … of boomerangs stuffed in file folders in a foot-wide briefcase. The next week, he’d be back at Marian Goodman, where …
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… authors lack a serious professional attitude toward their websites? In response, Carl Rollyson (@crollyson) tweeted: … published his biography in 1935. I expect, finally, to complete my task by the end of this year. On my last trip to … reviewers who would recognize its value, and, ultimately, audiences that would follow them when Imagism had served its …
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… The course announced, from the start, that Doak would become a force for what would be termed minimalism in golf … intellectual framework. He even spent three months as a caddie at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, which is … with online commenters over at the cultish Golf Club Atlas website and in the pages of various magazines, as well as …
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… the president’s life, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926). Though that book alone was a cumbersome task, Sandburg also agreed during this time to compile the American Songbag (1928), a collection of nearly …