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Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture recently bolstered its modern-art scholarship by naming art historian, editor, critic, and curator Benjamin Buchloh the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art, effective September...
...Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central,” Yve-Alain Bois, the former chair of the history of art and architecture department, wrote in a note to Franklin D. Rosenblatt...
...memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, and when Sandra was 5 years old she went to El Paso, Texas, where she lived with...
...most edifying subjects to study in all of U.S. history. Three years ago, TIME began the Making of America series. Each year around the Fourth of July it features a major American figure who helped shaped the nation. We began with explorers Lewis and Clark, then focused on Ben Franklin and last year chose Thomas Jefferson. This year we decided to dedicate an issue to a man who may not have been there at America's founding but sealed its character by prosecuting a civil war over the scourge of slavery. "Lincoln has long been a favorite subject for historians...
...price of being caught can be high. Late last week, on an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, a specially trained Labrador retriever, flown in by helicopter from Franklin, La., discovered marijuana in a worker's luggage. The employee was fired on the spot, and shared a ride back to the mainland with the dog and its handler...