Stories By Dr. Sam Ben-Meir
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Pottery, Poetry, and Protest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 20, 2023In 1919, South Carolina’s Charleston Museum acquired an unusually massive jar bearing the inscription “made at...
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Pyotr Kropotkin, 180 years later
December 21, 2022Pyotr Kropotkin was one of Russia’s finest minds, and one that was among the most dedicated...
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‘King Pleasure’ lives up to its name
December 1, 2022Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure, on view at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, features more than 200...
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American Ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 20, 2022Gifts from the Fire – American Ceramics from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg, is worth a...
Opinion
‘Philip Guston Now’ at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art
August 26, 2022During his fifty years as a painter, Canadian American artist Philip Guston created a body of...
Opinion
The Second Amendment has become a loathsome idol seeking American blood
June 23, 2022We have made a fetish out of the Second Amendment: it has become a loathsome idol...
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Harmonious Magic: JMW Turner at the Boston Museum of Fine Art
June 9, 2022Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English Romantic artist who lifted landscape and seascape painting to...
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Charles Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 2, 2022Charles Ray (b. 1953) – undoubtedly one of the most conceptually and visually breathtaking sculptors alive...
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Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
April 19, 2022The Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the early pioneers in the field of...
Opinion
We have grown allergic to truth
March 24, 2022We have grown allergic to truth and have forgotten why we ever valued it at all....
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