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Metropolitan Opera’s Don Giovanni mirrors a world on the verge of moral collapse

Metropolitan Opera’s Don Giovanni mirrors a world on the verge of moral collapse

The Metropolitan Opera has revived Ivo van Hove’s austere 2023 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Van Hove’s unforgiving approach strips away...

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Caspar David Friedrich at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Caspar David Friedrich is among those great painters the appreciation of whom has ironically suffered through the overexposure of a handful of...

29.03.2025 9

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Trump’s despotic reign is the antithesis of genuine republicanism

It should be clear to all Americans with eyes to see that we are witnessing the rise of a despotic presidency whose administration will test this...

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Édouard Manet at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

The subject of the paintings included in Manet: A Model Family, on view at Boston’s Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, would ostensibly be the members...

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A painterly dialogue: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts at the Currier Museum

In certain respects, the Currier Museum’s Jean Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts: A Distant Conversation may be regarded as a modest exhibition,...

20.12.2024 3

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Treasure the Dark: Mario de Maria at Bologna’s Museo Ottocento

The Museo Ottocento Bologna is currently presenting Mario De Maria, “Marius Pictor” (1852-1924). Ombra cara, an exhibition devoted to the work of...

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Some reflections on Miloš Forman’s Amadeus, forty years later

The IFC Center in New York’s Greenwich Village is currently showing a newly restored version of Miloš Forman’s Amadeus (1984) in commemoration of...

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