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The Death of the Travel Guidebook

This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The first novel, Tale of the...

04.04.2025 3

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David Carrier

Art and Money

Visual art is the the artistic medium most directly associated with money. A successful writer or composer may become financially successful. And a...

27.12.2024 5

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Museum Skepticism Revisited: the Lessons of Venice

Sometimes one’s best ideas are simple. At the end of the twentieth century, I spent the academic year in residence as a Getty Scholar in Los...

06.12.2024 4

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Two Cheers for Maurizio Cattelan

For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrait by Caravaggio has reappeared in Italy. Because I am very...

29.11.2024 5

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Walter Pater’s Venice

I am in my Pittsburgh study looking at an inexpensive print by Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), the French born artist who lived and worked in London....

20.09.2024 2

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Bill Beckley: A Perfect Friendship

Now and then, but this is rare, one has a perfect friendship, a loving harmonious experience rare enough to deserve a written record. I had such a...

13.09.2024 3

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The Venetian Birth of Modernism

Consider a short list of the defining qualities, the necessary and sufficient conditions of European modernism, in contrast or opposition to old...

06.09.2024 2

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