Art
… Three Flags, 1958 Encaustic on canvas (three panels). Welcome, Friend . Thanks for selecting this handheld audio … the new Thomas Jefferson Monticello Mark Rothko Exhibit is also highly recommended. What follows is adapted from the … Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus marshalling truckloads of soldiers to keep nine Black kids out of high school loops on …
Essays
… if Los Angeles disappeared into the ocean, New York would also grudgingly cease to exist. They are each other’s … Across dozens of films, NYC versus L.A. has swung comfortably between high-brow and low. The Coen Brothers’ … is almost as pissed off as Ben Stiller in Greenberg , an indie film about yet another displaced, neurotic Jew—this time …
… been disguised by familiarity, “The Hundred Years War” has come to have a life of its own, a moment in time which is … that “It is arguable that the Hundred Years War was medieval England’s greatest achievement.” That the concept is, … as far as the siege of Calais in 1347. His second volume, also of about 600 pages, ends in 1369. Or, to focus on a …
… caused a sense of outrage among U.S. Jewry. On September 26 about 120 leaders of Jewish organizations met in … you might offend some Jews in your state.” This view pinpoints the underlying strength of the Jewish political … court actions in the defense of Arab . rights, FCC complaints alleging pro-Israel bias, and other activity …
Photography
… photographic career is vast, seemingly borderless. His bodies of work include American teenagers in juvenile … Korean activists protesting Japan’s treatment of WWII “comfort women”; a day in the life of Los Angeles’s Ethiopian … neighborhoods have been the site of community-building but also intercommunal violence; collective defense during the …
… chair to the reading of his last speech in the Senate, he died in 1850. More than any, other, Calhoun was the … leaders did not rely upon planting, but began to look to commerce and industry. Also, the ranks of those who … preconceived hostility. Such a recital will give many added points to steer by. But there must be constructive proposal …