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The distance between Cuba and the mainland is less than 150 miles, a thumb's width on most maps. During the dusky gulf afternoons, it's possible to look out from Cuba's beaches and "see" the U.S. rippling on the waters. It's an optical illusion, but for young...
1921. Six Characters in Search of an Author is performed in Rome. Pirandello challenges the conventional distinction between illusion and reality as well as authorial omniscience--the whole business of tyrannically driving "his" creations along to some preordained point. This prefigures what may be postmodernism's most interesting idea: it...
The bells of London tolled joyously on Nov. 17, 1558, when Elizabeth ascended the throne. She made her coronation the first in a lifetime of scintillant spectacles, visual manifestations of her rule. As she walked down the carpet in Westminster Abbey, citizens scrambled behind her to cut off pieces. Her...
It crystallizes the century's chief concerns of life and art: man's existential predicament, the line between illusion and reality. And it's more fun than Waiting for Godot. RUNNERS-UP Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw; Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Velazquez's achievement was unique in the Spain of his day. He soon grew out of painting religious pictures. Instead he created a secular and courtly art--mainly portraits--in which a meticulous realism was conjoined with an extraordinary sense of the mechanics of painting. Velazquez gives you the physical...