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When Saroyan, a biography of my father William Saroyan by Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford, was published in 1986, I was coming off a five-year run during which I wrote three books about my family and couldn’t handle sitting down to read another word about them.
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I arrived in Battambang, Cambodia, late last year via a 5-hour bus ride from Siem Reap.
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In East Asia, sprawling, dynamic, constantly changing Tokyo has a long history as a seductive subject and muse for innovative camera artists, but that tradition and the remarkable, often unexpected images it has produced are still not so widely known in the West outside a relatively small but growin
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One of the greatest pleasures of teaching design history to college students is time travel.
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MILWAUKEE — It’s not unusual for a work of art to cause outrage, especially if it dips into the tender zones of race, gender, or religion.
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All flags bear the stain of conquest.
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The Curator woke up one morning to the alarming realization that she understood nothing about art and that it was possible that she would never understand anything about art.
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2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s “Growth” and the public art program that initiated its creation.
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VENICE — As I feel my way through a curtain and into a pitch-black, cavernous space, a white square shimmers in the distance.
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MINNEAPOLIS — How do you measure artistic success?
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RAVELLO — There's a deconsecrated chapel perched high on a cliff in Ravello, Italy, overlooking the Amalfi Coast.
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NAPLES — In the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, there's a tiny Roman fresco, about a foot square, of a semi-nude woman and man floating against an azure sky, one of many such fragments you'll find there.