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From the outside, the place is unexceptional?a barn conversion set against a typically flat and watery Dutch landscape in Monnickendam, a town about 20 minutes outside Amsterdam. That is exactly what makes the interior of Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques a greater surprise. For within, there's a roaring fire in...
As you step into “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle,” you immediately feel at home. The deep burgundy walls accented with gold-framed watercolors create a warm, inviting environment that seduces you to stay for hours, and by...
After the cubism revolution of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque violently overturned accepted artistic conventions, the door was open for artists like Fernand Léger to rearticulate the relationship between form and representation. “Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms,” on display at...
ART PHOTOGRAPHY NOW SUSAN BRIGHT Forget twilitstill lifes and peachy nudes. The photography in Bright's lively survey of 80 artists who work with cameras has more to do with staged scenes of suburban anxiety, mock heroic tableaux of heavily armed children and the determined contemplation of whatever is...
Bob Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant...