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‘The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute” (1730) by Antonio Canaletto

The urban/e vision of Canaletto and his rivals.

Jun 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 • By JAMES GARDNER

What Modernism looked like at the dawn of Modern Times.

May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 • By EVE TUSHNET

But with the inevitable forward march of progress come new ways of hiding things, and new things to hide.

—Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan:
The Smartest Kid on Earth

11:36 AM, Apr 26, 2011 • By KATHERINE EASTLAND

Who doesn’t love an animal logo? Allen Lane knew that, in 1935, when he published the first 10 Penguin books in London. The six pence paperbacks arrived in bookshops sporting the avian logo and no other graphics, just broad bands of color at the top and bottom. General fiction had orange bands; crime fiction, green; biography, dark blue. The uniform cover font was Gill Sans-Serif.

10:00 AM, Apr 16, 2011 • By EMILY SCHULTHEIS

In case you are feeling the pain of the money you paid to the federal government this week, here is a treat from the National Gallery of Art—free audio and video podcasts! So if finances are forcing you into yet another stay-cation this spring break, you can at least enjoy some of the best cultural programming that DC has to offer, all from the comfort and economy of your own home.

12:20 PM, Apr 10, 2011 • By DAVID GELERNTER

Makoto Fujimura is one of the best painters alive; there is no finer abstract painter at work today. He is a Christian who lives in New York and paints using the traditional Japanese Nihonga technique, and Crossway has just published an elegantly produced folio of the four gospels with Fujimura’s illuminations (The Four Holy Gospels, 168 pp., $129.99).

Ilana Lewitan, artist of hidden truth and double meaning.

Apr 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 • By DAVID GELERNTER

2:47 PM, Mar 17, 2011 • By EMILY SCHULTHEIS

The New York Times has an interesting article today about the use of social media like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter by museums to foster online communities built around common interest in art:

How and when Europe took note of American art.

Mar 7, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 24 • By JAMES GARDNER

Modern Life
Edward Hopper and His Time
Whitney Museum of American Art
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In search of Meindert Hobbema.

Jan 17, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 17 • By JOE QUEENAN

No painter in history is more taken for granted than Meindert Hobbema.

A Lesson in Cultural Geography from Steve Martin.

5:13 PM, Dec 3, 2010 • By PHILIP TERZIAN

I record with interest and, perhaps, a measure of surprise and sorrow a brief dispatch from the frontiers of culture—in this case, the hallowed precincts of the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Suffice it to say that the 92nd Street Y is the sort of place where Charlie Rose might talk to Anna Quindlen before an appreciative audience, or Leon Wieseltier might interview himself. Culturally speaking, this is important business.

Sense, nonsense, tension and meaning.

7:51 AM, Dec 1, 2010 • By NATALIE AXTON

If you read the press release for Neil Greenberg’s like a vase at the Dance Theatre Workshop here in New York, you will learn that the 60-minute dance “explores the tensions created by the seemingly inescapable human desire to make meaning.”