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QUESTION ASKED: Who Gets to Define What ‘Art’ Is? That was a topic that Tom Wolfe explored in dep… Little Italy

QUESTION ASKED: Who Gets to Define What ‘Art’ Is? That was a topic that Tom Wolfe explored in dep…

That was a topic that Tom Wolfe explored in depth in his 1975 book, The Painted Word, beginning with the endless procession of artists trekking to SoHo praying with all their might to hit the big time, while posing as non-bourgeois as humanly possible:elie…
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April 21, 2019
After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with “Les Miserables” Yellow Vests

After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with “Les Miserables”

The Notre Dame fire is a global tragedy, and it's also raising complicated questions about our present moment, including trenchant inquiries into which church fires merit global outpourings and whose sacred sites get mourned when they are destroyed. In Franc…
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April 21, 2019