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...that when taking stock of events, a little wit is no less important than a proper fund of sober intelligence. That's certainly the working philosophy of Bruce Handy. As the new senior editor of TIME's Chronicles section, Handy masterminds the pages that open each issue with an overview of the week that's part David Brinkley, part David Letterman...
Even if it doesn't force you to overturn all you prior convictions about art and the universe, the Fogg show does illustrate the development of a small national artistic community through one of the most tumultuous epochs in the history of European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists...
Fine Arts 13b, "Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to Modern," was a casualty of a changing approach to teaching art history and the unwillingness of a highly specialized faculty to teach broad overview classes...
This album really is an excellent overview of Prince's entire career, reintroducing listeners to the music that they grew up with in the eighties. It also demonstrates Prince's ability to change his sound, his themes (although he never gets more than a few verses away from a reference to sex) and still permeate each track with his musical and emotional personality in a manner that invites comparisons to the late Miles Davis. Both men's music is characterized by a vision of diversity and immediacy which rarely sacrifices quality...
...panel, entitled "Women Behind Bars: An Overview," was part of a conference sponsored by the Criminal Justice Institute which focused on the treatment of women in prison and the obstacles they face when re-entering society...