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Google Doodle celebrates the work of Diego Rivera

2011-12-08 16:32:59

<![CDATA[Google Doodle celebrates the work of Diego Rivera]]>

Gregorio Luke to talk about controversial murals

2011-07-29 16:33:19

<![CDATA[Gregorio Luke to talk about controversial murals]]>

Art review: 'Siqueiros: Landscape Painter' at Museum of Latin American Art and 'Siqueiros in L.A.: Censorship Defied' at Autry National Center

2010-10-12 16:32:54

<![CDATA[Art review: 'Siqueiros: Landscape Painter' at Museum of Latin American Art and 'Siqueiros in L.A.: Censorship Defied' at Autry National Center]]>

Championing reviews this week: Magic Johnson and Larry Bird; China and the U.S. economy; J.M. Barrie and more

2009-11-07 21:33:35

<![CDATA[Championing reviews this week: Magic Johnson and Larry Bird; China and the U.S. economy; J.M. Barrie and more]]>

Barbara Kingsolver wins 2010 Orange Prize

2010-06-09 21:34:19

<![CDATA[Barbara Kingsolver wins 2010 Orange Prize]]>

Peter Biskind on Warren Beatty: Was his theme song 'You're So Vain' or 'Just a Gigolo'?

2010-01-11 16:32:26

<![CDATA[Peter Biskind on Warren Beatty: Was his theme song 'You're So Vain' or 'Just a Gigolo'?]]>

Celebrity mugshots receive their artistic close-up at Hollywood's ArcLight

2010-03-04 16:32:53

<![CDATA[Celebrity mugshots receive their artistic close-up at Hollywood's ArcLight]]>

Mexico celebrates Kahlo

2007-06-18 00:00:00

Among the dozens of spooky, iconic images made by Mexico's most spookily iconic artist, few pack more potent symbolism than the 1939 double self-portrait "The Two Fridas." On the right side of the large oil painting, Frida Kahlo depicted herself in...

The Red October album

2007-10-28 00:00:00

On March 2, 1917 (according to the Julian calendar then in use in Russia), Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his throne and, within a few months, Russia came under the control of the unstable provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. Kerensky...

'Lost' art tells of a love lost

2007-09-29 00:00:00

He was a celebrated painter and political agitator who put revolution before art. She was a twentysomething poet, dazzled by her charismatic suitor, David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the leading Mexican muralists who audaciously combined public art and...

Erasing Barry Bonds from baseball history

2008-05-18 00:00:00

'The Commissar Vanishes" is not your usual coffee-table book. Using photographs, it shows how Josef Stalin systematically erased memories of his chief political opponents from the history of the Russian revolution. In one photo, the dictator appears...

Throw out clich�s

2012-05-24 01:05:22

Political writing tends to be bad writing, noted George Orwell in his 1946 essay �Politics and the English Language.� Too often it's a tool for deception and obfuscation rather than clear communication. Orwell criticizes particularly those who rely on...

Snowball, Squealer, Old Major and Napoleon of Animal Farm The piggies in George Orwell s landmark 1945 satire of Soviet totalitarianism are total swines. But then again, they are thinly disguised porky incarnations of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Vyacheslav Molotov.

2008-03-04 17:49:57