Arts
Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films
December 23, 2019There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.
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A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
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Is capitalism burying Mexico’s Day of the Dead?
October 31, 2019When this system is gone, its ravages complete, no one will build an ofrenda for it. No one will mourn it. No one will plant marigolds for capital.
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Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
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100 years of Bauhaus: Building for a society of equals
March 25, 2019"Art and people must form a unity. Art should no longer be the pleasure of a few, but serve the happiness and life of the many." - Walter Gropius
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