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...different. Before the media age, people tended to believe in public didactic art and therefore in patronage. Although they may have eventually pulled it off its pedestal after what the Bush Administration euphemistically calls "regime change" occurred, they did not whine soggily about élitism when some duke or prince put up a statue in praise of himself or his relatives. And that is what the marvelous show now on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," is really about...
...predecessors were made of sterner stuff. Nor, despite his nickname, was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-92) the biggest patron of the clan. That honor belongs to his great-grandson, Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), the linchpin of this show. He was installed as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated...
...attempt to pressure students into reporting their peers for cheating, certain schools, like Duke University, will penalize students who fail to report cheating that they see. A more effective policy, however, would have a much lighter punishment for a “minor” or “questionable” first offense. This policy might encourage students and professors to report incidents, knowing that if it is was a mistake or confusion, the student won’t be expelled and knowing that if they are reporting a repeat offender, they may be dealing the final blow...
...Duke of Dubuque and the Pasha of Oshkosh who butted in front of me at the airport put their stuff on the conveyor and walked through the scanner, and something on the Pasha's person set off the alarm. A security guy set about frisking him with a wand, which irked His Eminence, as did the request to remove the royal shoes. They were put through the scanner, and his briefcase was searched, and His Eminence started to give off anger fumes. He sighed deeply and shook his head at the insanity of it all. But the woman scanning...
...other concentrations. But it is important to recognize that Harvard has the means to develop a legitimate and multi-layered concentration benefiting drama students with not only practice, but also theory and history. There a number of reputable dramatic arts or theater concentrations at other prestigious universities, like Dartmouth, Duke, NYU, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale; their examples demonstrate the possibility of a successful dramatic arts concentration within the jurisdiction of an esteemed liberal arts college...