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Helen Weaver Is The Awakener

Helen Weaver is a literary spark plug. Readers will observe her well-crafted prose as being both straight-thinking and sophisticatedly sharp. Her...
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Coco Chanel had affair with Nazi spy, abused drugs, was bisexual, new book says

Anew book entitled "Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life" will be released this fall and the biography will contain details about the famous...
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Friday spotlight: L’Age d’Or (1930)

  • L’Age d’Or
  • June 3, 2011
Called Luis Bunuel’s most provocative film, L’Age d’Or(The Age of Gold) is the Spanish filmmaker’s first feature and his...
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Friday spotlight: Un Chien Andalou

For any person serious about film “Un Chien Andalou” is one ofthe first titles on their “must-see” list. Famously...
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The agony and the ecstasy redux

  • Who wsa the real Michelangelo?
  • December 23, 2010
He was a brooding genius without people skills. That was the gist in Irving Stone in the 1961 biographical novel ”The Agony and the Ecstasy,...
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Just what the art world needs, another gimmick

  • Gimmicky art
  • December 7, 2010
You might say that an NYU art teacher has eyes in the back of his head because he had them implanted there in the form of a digital camera.Wafaa...
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Connoisseurs don’t always get it right

The story of art forgery is as old as the Seven Hills of Rome. Michelangelo sculpted a Cupid, buried it in a Roman garden for that dug-up antiquity...
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