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The fashion influencers of the French Revolution
Art Daily· 6 days agoMost days, Anne Higonnet is able to keep her cool. She s a distinguished professor of art history at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her
Why Beethoven’s ninth appeals to democrats and despots alike
The Economist· 2 hours agoLudwig van Beethoven’s ninth and final symphony was first performed on May 7th 1824 at Vienna’s...
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1168: Voltaire and Science | Houston Public Media
Houston Public Media· 2 days agoEpisode: 1168 Voltaire, Newton, science, and the French Revolution. Today, Newton, Voltaire, and the French Revolution.
Five Best: Books on Clothes
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoReaders of his “The Painter of Modern Life” hadn’t yet recovered from the sartorial shock of the French Revolution, when centuries of monarchic and guild...
Opinion | Daniel Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us
New York Times· 1 day agoMr. Barenboim is a pianist and conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed...
Why do we say ‘green thumb,’ ‘out of the blue’ and more color idioms?
NY Post via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoSome have also said this phrase was first written in the mid-1800s by Thomas Carlyle, Scottish...
Triumphs of Skepticism | Clair Wills
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoIf it is true, as Saint Augustine says, that the dead aren’t absent but merely invisible, then somewhere round about, as I write about her and you read...
Maïwenn and Johnny Depp Deliver Decadent Sexual Excess In ‘Jeanne du Barry’
The New York Observer· 17 hours agoBest of all, Johnny Depp honors the fact that this is not a film about him. When I first heard about...
Kravis on Broadway for 2024-25 has 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Funny Girl,' 'Book of Mormon'
The Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"Les Misérables," April 22-27: A tale of broken dreams and unrequited love set four decades after...
Frank Stella Dies, Dozens Arrested at Pro-Palestine Encampment at Chicago’s Art Institute, and More:...
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