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There’S A Mystery There: Sendak On Sendak - Wildly Wonderful, Ann Taylor Sep 2009

There’S A Mystery There: Sendak On Sendak - Wildly Wonderful, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of "There's A Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak," which was on exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum from September 8, 2009 until January 19, 2010.


Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character - Re-Framing Questions Of Identity, Ann Taylor Aug 2009

Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character - Re-Framing Questions Of Identity, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of the Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character exhibition at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, which ran from May 1, 2010 through August 23, 2010.


Lords Of The Samurai - A Refreshing Perspective, Ann Taylor Jul 2009

Lords Of The Samurai - A Refreshing Perspective, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of the Asian Art Museum's Lords of the Samurai exhibition, which ran from June 12, 2009 through September 20, 2009.


Tutankhamun And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs - Outstanding Art Of The Afterlife, Ann Taylor Jun 2009

Tutankhamun And The Golden Age Of The Pharaohs - Outstanding Art Of The Afterlife, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of the DeYoung Museum's exhibition of Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharaohs, which ran from June 27, 2009 through March 28, 2010.


Douglas Schneider: Suburban Birthday Party - Arresting Americana And Expressionism, Ann Taylor May 2009

Douglas Schneider: Suburban Birthday Party - Arresting Americana And Expressionism, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

A review of Douglas Schneider: Suburban Birthday Party exhibition, which ran at the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco from May 7, 2009 through June 27, 2009.


Sound In Space: Adventures In Australian Sound Art (1995), Exhibition, Rebecca Coyle Mar 2009

Sound In Space: Adventures In Australian Sound Art (1995), Exhibition, Rebecca Coyle

Dr Rebecca Coyle

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Historic Photos Of Ernest Hemingway, James Plath Feb 2009

Historic Photos Of Ernest Hemingway, James Plath

James Plath

From the 1920s until his death in 1961, “Papa” Hemingway was a larger-than-life literary figure whose everyday exploits became legendary. He was a friend of celebrities, a war correspondent, journalist, renowned big-game hunter, record-setting saltwater angler, and hard-drinking brawler whose reputation preceded him. Though Hemingway was and remains an American icon, he was also first and foremost a human being, as these striking black-and-white photos remind.
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Compare And Contrast: Rhetorical Strategies In Edmond De Goncourt's Japonsime, Pamela Warner Dec 2008

Compare And Contrast: Rhetorical Strategies In Edmond De Goncourt's Japonsime, Pamela Warner

Pamela J. Warner

Studies of Japonisme have usually assumed a simple relationship of difference between Japanese and French art and culture, but Edmond de Goncourt's writing is remarkable for the number of comparisons he makes between France and Japan. This essay considers the influence of positivism on Goncourt’s assertions, looking also at how Goncourt's Japonisme extended arguments he made in the 1860s against French academic art.


Messengers From The Past, Anastasia Tsaliki Dec 2008

Messengers From The Past, Anastasia Tsaliki

Anastasia Tsaliki

Participation in this documentary directed by Gianni Minelli and produced by Zeeva Production in English and in Italian.

"On September 26th, 1997, a violent earthquake shook central Italy. The effects were devastating. Television stations from all over the world broadcasted images of the incomparable artistic heritage that risked being destroyed forever. In Monsanpolo del Tronto, a small town in the Marches, the earthquake damaged the beautiful church Maria Santissima Assunta. A few years later, during the restoration of the church, a sensational discovery was made: twenty perfectly preserved mummies from the middle of the sixteenth century wearing their original clothes. …