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Two for the road: the prolonged and productive rivalry between Matisse and Picasso fills a major chapter in the history of 20th-century modernism. As a
The last great confrontation of their lifetime between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso took place in 1945 on the walls of the Victoria and Albert Museum ......(Continue Reading) New books
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, before the Wall came down on the German Democratic Republic. How convenient to have gnarly ......(Continue Reading)McCarthy & His Friends - Review
Mr. Teachout, the music critic of Commentary and a contributor to Time magazine, is the editor of Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker ......(Continue Reading)Is fascism behind the terror? Islamist extremists believe in a worldwide conspiracy not just of Jews, but also of Freemasons. They thus echo the rantings
Ever since 11 September 2001 reasonable people in liberal democracies have concluded that their enemies must at some level be reasonable, too. Surely ......(Continue Reading)Shostakovich, Kadaré and the nature of dissidence: an Albanian view
THIS ARTICLE CONCERNS THE EFFECT of the communist totalitarian system on two great artists: Dmitri Shostakovich, who lived under Soviet rule before and ......(Continue Reading)
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