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...placed the 200-year-old canvas backings under glass. Because a horizontal wooden support directly bisected the back of the canvas, a region of the backing was left less weathered, lighter in tone than the rest, so that a pale horizontal bar runs across the middle of each. The canvases look like a miniature Rothkos in sepia tones. Rothko wanted to create "the modern landscape," so the association comes full circle, again...
The drawback: no one, staff or writer, gets paid. Yet Eggers has lassoed literary stars like David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody. In the new issue, he even enlisted authors to design their own book covers. (A Denis Johnson play bears a cartoon by the author's son.) Because of...
For both Bradley and McCain, the decision whether or not to canvas Iowa also involves their belief in the state's influence on later primaries.
"[She} was the planner behind [the social events] and she was good at it," Donald Pfister said. "She'll miss the large-scale canvas to paint social events on."
Tracy Chevalier is cautious with fact and adventurous with fiction in her novel, aptly titled Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutton; 240 pages; $23.95). Vermeer's activities as an art dealer and tavern operator are not pushed further than the thready historical record. Greit, on the other hand, is a...