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A Taxi to Antiquity [by Mindy Aloff]
Nancy James in Charles James Swan Gown, 1955 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Cecil Beaton, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's What about a 3-D printer? The thought kind…
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D-Day, 70 Years On. . . [by David Lehman]
The general thought about prayer.He lit a cigarette and thought about it.If he was a praying man he would pray for a break in the weather,But prayer was an act of futility, or of…
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Lloyd Schwartz on “Showboat” (1936 version)
Click on this link to read Lloyd Schwartz on the 1936 screen adaptation of the classic 1927 musical (words by Oscar Hammerstein, music by Jerome Kern). There's a new DVD of this picture…
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Parmigianino and His Poets [by Mindy Aloff]
Francesco Mazzola, called Il Parmigianino (1503–1540) Schiava Turca, c. 1531–34 Oil on panel 26 3/4 x 20 7/8 inches Galleria Nazionale di Parma Photo: Scala/Art Resource, NY When, back in college, I first encountered…
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Next Line Please: Five down, nine to go on the American Scholar’s crowd-sourced sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a sonnet. David Lehman wrote the first line and selects subsequent lines from among those submitted by…
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A Hankering for “Who Cares?” [by Stacey Harwood]
photo by Quinn Farley The anticipation of Mindy Aloff's posts gave me a hankering for the ballet. As it happens both the New York City Ballet and The American Ballet Theater are in town…
