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What’s up with Trump’s fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents?
Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, ...
A Salon for the Ages, at Least for Now
A woman saved a decrepit building in the ’70s and turned it into, among other things, an art museum, an opera house and a ...
10 Books That Start as One Genre and Morph Into Something Else Entirely
These 10 genre-defying books begin one way and take unexpected turns—blending mystery, romance, sci-fi, and horror in the ...
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Edvard Munch Is Known as the Painter of ‘The Scream.’ His Many Haunting Portraits Show That He Was Much More Than His Masterpiece
Through 45 artworks made between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new exhibition spotlights the Norwegian artist's sometimes ...
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Mapplethorpe Unbound: Rediscovered S&M Images Surface in New York City
The stark black-and-white compositions do what Mapplethorpe did best: transform the socially unacceptable into formalist art through meticulous attention to light, shadow and balance.