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Nils Büttner’s Examination of Hieronymus Bosch Pales in the Light of Its Subject
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Nils Büttner’s Examination of Hieronymus Bosch Pales in the Light of Its Subject

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 / 15 August 2016
Hieronymus Bosch was a fantastic painter whose weird conception of the world stirs strong emotions. This new translation of Nils Büttner's analysis of the artist, alas, doesn't.
‘The Long March of Pop’ Offers a Fresh Experience of Pop Art
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‘The Long March of Pop’ Offers a Fresh Experience of Pop Art

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 / 7 May 2015
This new and provocative survey of Pop Art widens the scope of its subject while keeping the focus on the artists.
The Butterfly and the Scorpion: ‘Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake’
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The Butterfly and the Scorpion: ‘Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake’

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 / 24 April 2014
This biography of James Whistler is full of sharp notes of detail and anecdotes that help one glean various shades of his inscrutable personality
The Stultifying Speeches of ‘The Monuments Men’
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The Stultifying Speeches of ‘The Monuments Men’

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 / 11 February 2014
Theoretically an adventure film about saving the culture of the Western World from rampaging Nazi philistines, George Clooney's first serious misstep as a director is somehow both painfully serious and trite.
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Les Fantômes d’Empire: ‘Vanishing Paradise’

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 / 20 June 2013
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Sentimentality, Captured Beautifully: ‘Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s’

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 / 26 February 2013
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California Wives: Art History

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 / 2 October 2012
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Art and the American Evolution: The Arts of the Americas Wing at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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 / 1 July 2011
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The Life and Death of Images, Diarmuid Costello & Dominic Willsdon (eds.)

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 / 28 September 2008