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Last week, on loan from the Victoria and Albert, which now regards them as among its finest possessions, 135 of those drawings were on display at the National Gallery in Washington. Their creator was Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose own native Venice did not begin to rediscover him until more than...
The legend, one of a legion of its kind, contains a truth about the art of China more telling than any archaeological find: for centuries, the Chinese attributed almost magical powers to their artists. This week gallerygoers who care to risk the dragons will be able to rediscover the magic...
Eve Wants to Sleep (in Polish). The Poles, of all people, rediscover a truth from U.S. silent-film days: that while the police may not be funny, policemen are -and the result is a wacky cops-and-robbers knockabout.
The solemn may try to see political satire in this jape. It is true that one of a pack of thieves says, "At least we're not nationalized yet," and an official-looking sign in a workingwomen's boardinghouse reads, "Chastity is the Best Policy! Don't...
The realization that he had staked his life on his words gave a living urgency to his expression of the elementary axioms of democracy; in chaotic times he was obliged to rediscover and reformulate the democratic principles that are today the comfortable cliches of an affluent society.