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Philadelphia's Jeffersonian summer
The man behind the Declaration of Independence
Together, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello and Jefferson, Philadelphia, and the Founding of a Nation offer a comprehensive view of one man’s intellect, privilege, ambition, accomplishment, and limitations. Despite his failings, it is impossible not to admire what Jefferson did. Given his many gifts, it is also impossible not to wish he had done more.
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Wheeling to Columbus to Cincinnati
Road trip to art
Venture beyond the Boston-to-D.C. axis for your next art-lovers' road trip.
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The gift shop at the 9/11 Museum
It has been said that America is exceptional. It is: It's exceptionally disrespectful. The 9/11 Memorial Museum, including its store, should never have been built.
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Musée de l'Orangerie and the Barnes Foundation
A tale of two museums
There are a variety of similarities, and differences, between Paul Guillaume and Albert Barnes, and between the museums housing their respective collections.
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A solo visit to Florence
Sorrows of a Florentine traveler
Nestled in the cradle of the Tuscan hills, this city of light, good food, and tiny medieval streets has a history as extraordinary as its beauty. Florence is the birthplace of the Renaissance, secularism, liberalism, rationalism, and the pagan world.
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That cross at the 9/11 Memorial
God and propaganda at Ground Zero
The new 9/11 Memorial Museum is planning to exhibit, among other artifacts, a pair of girders recovered from Ground Zero in the shape of a cross. It’s a bad idea for several reasons.
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Renzo Piano Pavilion at Kimbell Art Museum
What if they built an art museum and forgot the art?
These days, the buildings in which art museums are housed seem to get more attention than the art within.
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Amsterdam: The city as museum
Rembrandt would recognize this place (and so would John Adams)
Yes, Amsterdam remains a Mecca for aging hippies, hash parlors and whores. But hold the snarky jokes. The city is an architectural wonderland of the 17th and 18th Centuries, full of dozens of remarkable museums.
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Searching for Grace Kelly at the Michener Museum
Will the real Grace Kelly please stand up?
An exhibit that promises to reveal the real Grace Kelly does little more than cater to her gorgeous myth.
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Diego Rivera's ghost in Detroit
Where art and ideology meet: Can a dead Communist artist save Detroit?
The city of Detroit may be broke, but the Detroit Institute of Arts owns $2 billion worth of art works. Its most valued pieces, by the Communist Diego Rivera, portray heroic workers triumphing over stoic managers. In the best capitalist tradition, Rivera’s frescoes are now being held hostage by a pair of union-busting Republican politicians.
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