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The Platypus: Crivelli's "Saint James Major" at the Brooklyn Museum

Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.02.2013 | Arts
Read More: Fragonard, Oil Painting, Brooklyn Museum, Tempera Painting, Renaissance, Botticelli, Italy, Painting, French Revolution, Saint James Major, Simon Schama, Citizens, Mantegna, Carlo Crivelli, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Shepard Fairey, Arts News
Daniel Maidman

Let me share with you a doubt. My doubt is that visual art has all that much of an impact on history. have written many of the essays you've been reading as if art had something to say, and as if it were important. And I believe, more or less - on good days -- that something like this is true.

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You Callin' Me a Snob? The History of a Word

Alan Elsner | Posted 04.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Simon Schama, William Makepeace Thackeray, Snobbery, Beer, Rick Santorum, Downton Abbey, Wine, Lawns, Gardening, Ed-Lection 2012, Home News
Alan Elsner

Today we have the wine snob, the beer snob, the cheese snob, the opera snob, the film snob and countless other varieties. One definition of the food snob that amused me is "a person who looks down on those who do not know the difference between a daube and a navarin."

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A Bit of a Spat About Downton Abbey

Red Room | Posted 03.21.2012 | TV
Read More: Downton Abbey, Simin Schama, Simon Schama Downton Abbey, Simon Schama, Downton Abbey Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey Pbs, Downton Abbey Series 2, Downton Abbey Christmas Special, TV Canada, TV News
Red Room

Oh dear, haven't these experts ever been to a party? Are they so tied up in critical knots that they can't just sit back and let people be entertained? Because that's what Downton Abbey is -- it's entertainment.

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The French Revolution As You've Never Seen It -- As a Graphic Novel

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.04.2011 | Books
Read More: Simon Schama, Bernar Yslaire, Jean-Claude Carrière, Robespierre, French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

The Sky Over the Louvre, by esteemed cartoonist Bernar Yslaire, demonstrates understanding -- even mastery -- of a fascinating historical episode, and is a powerful aesthetic experience.

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Arianna Talks To Simon Schama

FT Magazine | Simon Schama | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Mainstream Media, Financial TImes, Simon Schama, Arianna, The Huffington Post, New Media, Ft Magazine, Journalism, Arianna Huffington, Media News

Arianna Huffington may not single-handedly be changing the nature of journalism in American life, but against the shit-storm of hatred and rage that i...

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First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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