2 days ago by brian

I am a fan of Marilynne Robinson’s writing, so I was happy to learn yesterday that her next book will arrive in 2010. It is an essay collection titled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, and it will be released by Yale University Press. It seems likely tha ...

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6 days ago by brian

Published in Frieze 127 (November-December 2009). To see the review in context (website registration required), click here. Charlotte Klonk Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000 Yale University Press, 2009 ($75) Thirty years ago, artist and writer Brian O’Doherty revealed som ...

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8 days ago by bibliotecaiie

Viernes / “The arts of intimacy : christians, jews and muslims in the making of Castilian culture” by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal and Abigail Krasner Balbale “This lavishly illustrated book explores the vibrant interaction among different and sometimes opposing cultures, and how their con ...

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9 days ago by Matthew Deleget

Arshile Gorky, Agony, c. 1947 October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major traveling retrospective celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (American, born Armenia, c.1904-1948), a seminal figure in the movement towards gestural abstract ...

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10 days ago by Rob Tornoe

Kurt Westergaard's 2005 caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. Two Chicago men have been arrested for allegedly plotting to kill a Danish newspaper’s cartoonist and cultural editor for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad back in 2005. FBI agents arrested David Headley en route to Pakistan earli ...

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22 days ago by brian

My brief review of Paul Goldberger’s Why Architecture Matters ( Yale) appears in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Click here (and scroll down) to read it. “[Goldberger] is suitably temperate while discussing the balance of ‘aesthetic ambition’ and ’social purpose,’ exterior form and ...

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25 days ago by Reviews

Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity by G.A. Bradshaw The distance separating man from animal has become increasingly smaller as cognitive studies have uncovered more of the complexities of the animal mind. With the diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in elephan ...

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25 days ago by personalizedbabybooks

This is the book many women have been waiting for – it contains all of the thorough, up to date and accurate “doctor” information on surviving a working pregnancy AND all the information you’d get over coffee from your friends who’ve been through it – and their friends who’ve been through it (if you ...

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25 days ago by southernfoodandbeveragemuseum

[Out of the East] will inspire you to think about the power of food. We take it for granted, but it is the stuff of imagination as well as life. Freedman reminds us of this important fact.

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29 days ago by Rebeca

Sin: A History By Gary A. Anderson Yale University Press 2009 272 pages $30.00 Reviewed by Randall Radic To say the least, the concept of sin is very interesting. To some people – those called Christians – the subject of sin is vitally important. Because they want to avoid it at all cost. If they do ...

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