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Millions of square feet of manmade fabric, elaborately engineered, in the service of . . . what, exactly?
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January 2009 |
Steven C. Munson |
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The cultural artifacts of antiquity--our common heritage--deserve the best and most disinterested custodians.
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September 2008 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Resolving the paradox of a bad painter and a superior artist.
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November 2007 |
Steven C. Munson |
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At its most elemental, rendering images is the work of a creator's hands.
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March 2007 |
Steven C. Munson |
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The modernist sculptor was at his best when he was most himself.
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May 2006 |
Steven C. Munson |
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December 2005 |
Reviewed by Steven C. Munson |
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The remodeled museum is sleek, spacious, and a failure.
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February 2005 |
Steven C. Munson |
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October 2004 |
Reviewed by Steven C. Munson |
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A captivating painter has been reduced to the sterile categories of identity purposes.
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September 2004 |
Steven C. Munson |
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An exhibit by a 20th-century American master reflects a very different impulse from today's need to irritate.
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May 2004 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Infuriatingly to some, the painter's aesthetic genius is inseparable from his subjects.
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December 2003 |
Steven C. Munson |
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The work of a 17th-century Chinese painter, on exhibit in Washington, is a revelation.
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July/August 2003 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Inseparable from his deficiencies are the qualities that make his work so powerfully pleasing.
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October 2002 |
Steven C. Munson |
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The art in a recent exhibit is worthless; the ideas, both aesthetic and moral, are much worse than that.
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May 2002 |
Steven C. Munson |
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In drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the last great artist of the 20th century engaged in a single search.
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December 2001 |
Steven C. Munson |
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The works of Wayne Thiebaud raise again the question of what was, and is, pop art.
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May 2001 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Among collectors, dealers, and museum curators, connoisseurship is increasingly out.
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January 2001 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Why is an illustrator who never rose above kitsch being celebrated as a 20th-century master?
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September 2000 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Why did our own painters fail to match the achievement of the European masters?
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May 2000 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Forty years of postmodernism have all but obliterated the distinction between art and kitsch.
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January 2000 |
Steven C. Munson |
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November 1999 |
Steven C. Munson |
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An independent woman, she was also as far from feminist stereotype as it is possible to be.
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September 1999 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Recent curators notwithstanding, the painter's passions were far from political.
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July/August 1999 |
Steven C. Munson |
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Out of a lifelong struggle to heal the chaos within, there emerged the most powerfully restorative works of modern art.
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April 1999 |
Steven C. Munson |
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A new exhibition suggests an underappreciated reason for the painter's universal appeal.
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December 1998 |
Steven C. Munson |
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August 1998 |
Reviewed by Steven C. Munson |
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Exile is an account of Richard Nixon's life from his resignation of the Presidency on August 9, 1974 through his seventieth birthday on January 9, 1983. It is a narrative of events intertwined with a vast accumulation of gossip.
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October 1984 |
Reviewed by Steven C. Munson |
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Richard J. Barnet is a founder and co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.; a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker; and the author of nine books. His new book, The Alliance, is a history of America's relations with Western Europe and Japan since 1945.
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April 1984 |
Reviewed by Steven C. Munson |
