Bush: Methodist Preacher or Horse Thief?
By way of Martini Revolution, I came across this Scott Horton post about Bush’s favorite painting, “A Charge to Keep.” We definitely need better art history education in the U.S., if for no other...
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George Bellows Exhibit at the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library has a really interesting exhibit of George Bellows’ drawings. Here’s one drawing, “The Law Is Too Slow”: Powerful stuff. Some additional pictures are here.
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Two Great Boston Public Library Exhibits
(from here) The Honoré Daumier exhibit is at the Central Library and is phenomenal. The BPL also has a great online exhibit of old travel posters (the amount of stuff the BPL has is incredible–if only...
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Of Course, Ted Nugent Would View This Differently
Rockwell Kent, Heavy, Heavy Hangs Over Thy Head: Kent meant this as a commentary on the fragility of the Cold War detenté, but, sadly, gun nuts would view this very differently…
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