May 28, 2021
Week in review
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On Henry Adams, Sasanian Iran & the recent burglary of Arundel Castle.
On Henry Adams, Sasanian Iran & the recent burglary of Arundel Castle.
On Giovanni Bellini, Peter Shear, Scottish architecture & more from the world of culture.
On the Whitechapel Bell Foundry & the Cerne Abbas Giant.
On Willem de Kooning’s drawings, Bedřich Smetana, Humphry Repton, Izaak Walton & more from the world of culture.
On chess & the poetics of marble.
On memoirs by a Navy SEAL, Sean Scully, Eleanor Ray & more from the world of culture.
On the art patron Edward James, Dostoevsky & the secret history of a violin.
On Mel Kendrick, Katherine Bradford, the history of British sartorialism & more from the world of culture.
On Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, a macabre tapestry at the Louvre & Napoleon’s ambition.
On Nell Blaine, Dee Shapiro, Britain’s “Age of Decadence” & more from the world of culture.