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Gustav Klimt - Oberösterreichisches Bauernhaus
Literature & Society

Art Heist: Pushkin Editions Stolen From European Libraries

Alexander Pushkin, watercolor attributed to S. G. Chirikov, 1810. Source: Central Museum of A. S. Pushkin / Wikimedia Commons.

A Paris trial is set to examine the theft of more than 170 rare Russian books, including early Pushkin editions, from libraries across Europe.
Bob Loblaw
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Recent Note

A modern reconstruction of the lion-headed helmet worn by Alexander the Great on the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, a late-fourth-century BC marble tomb found in the royal necropolis at Sidon, in... Design Objects.

The Spinning Room

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Film

Fun City Editions: The Joy of Rescuing Forgotten Films

Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

A conversation with Jonathan Hertzberg on rescuing overlooked films, physical media, and the second lives of great neglected movies.
Jonathan Hertzberg John White
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Literature & Society

Sontag Was a Bridge Between Old New York and the New

Joel Meyerowitz, New York City, 1969.

Sontag as a bridge between old New York criticism and the theory-driven culture that followed.
Bob Loblaw
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Theater & Dance

Dafoe Seeks Amateur Spirit Via the Old Tale

Piero di Cosimo, Perseus Freeing Andromeda, c. 1510–1515. Oil on panel, Uffizi Galleries, Florence. A Renaissance myth staged like popular theater, with monster, crowd, and wonder folded into the kind of pre-modern storytelling Dafoe’s program brings back into view.

Dafoe’s Biennale program looks at theater’s origins.
Pina Lomb
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Literature & Society

The Editra Manifesto of Primalism

Yellow relief by Ellsworth Kelly

Manifesto for a new artistic movement.
Pina Lomb
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