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As Shone writes in the catalog, Sickert's career ran parallel to all the great Modernist movements from the 1880s to the 1930s but belonged to none of them. He was "a passionately self-isolating figure . . . highly individual, combining expected elements of the European mainstream with personal tastes that can...
THE CHARGES CAME QUICKLY AND HARD: MURder. Manslaughter. And the message was clear: Detroit is not Los Angeles. Criminal charges have been brought against four Detroit police officers in the killing of black motorist Malice Green, allegedly beaten to death by police earlier this month. Two white officers, Larry Nevers...
These sly borrowings, more evident than ever in this fourth of the author's vampire tales, have worked brilliantly. We're absolutely convinced, for instance, that Rice's star, the blond, handsome vampire Lestat, is exactly the 200-year-old bloodsucker he claims to be. He was the dark eminence...
But historical cycles are not inevitable. They depend on the strengths and frailties of those who become repositories of the hope for change. In a democracy, successful reformers must have, above all, the backbone to convey brutal facts unflinchingly. Especially now: America's current plight has been aggravated by a...
Like Rachmaninov, the stubborn composer who used 19th-century models for his music, Sontag is a willful anachronism and has never been accepted by critics and academics. Unlike Rachmaninov, however, it is doubtful that Sontag's Volcano Lover Work will be embraced by the general public. Now the novelty, the...