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Avenging the Honor of Free Speech

January 7, 2015, will be remembered as the day Islamic terrorists declared war against f...

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One Path to a Renaissance

FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART AND EXCELLENCE — By Alexan...

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For One Museum, Patriotism Doesn’t Draw a Crowd

Even where one might think it to be popular, patriotism is not an easy sell. In Georgia, s...

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A Great American Artist Tested the Limits of Liberal Tolerance

2009 was the centenary year of the birth of a great American artist and writer. At his pea...

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“Lost”… and Found

It began with an eye opening. It ended with an eye closing. In "The End," love conquered a...

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Roger Scruton Chronicles Modern Art’s War on Beauty

Inform a museum’s curator that she should request a refund from her plumber who foolish...

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Frank Frazetta, 1928-2010

He was an artist, not an author, but I suspect he was responsible for more fantasy book...

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C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Are Not ‘Real’ Artists?

Not according to James Bowman. They and numerous others create what Bowman dismissively r...

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The Return of Great Movie Poster Art

I am looking forward to Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Not only does...

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Agog Over the Van Goghs

  Vincent Van Gogh is definitely not one of my favorite painters, but I'm glad t...

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“Rembrandt of the Comic Strip”

I'm not a comic-book/graphic-novel lover nor a hater. The form just doesn't grab me the wa...

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The Art of “The Batman”

I've been out of town at a conference for the past few days, and haven't had much of a cha...

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Art That Bites

Artists in the twentieth-century increasingly operated on the insight that it is vain, stu...

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Baby Poop Art

In our ongoing Everything Happens in the Omniculture department, E! Online reports that a ...

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Thomas Kinkade Moves In

The Thomas Kinkade company reports that a new development in Columbia, Missouri, will feat...