Books
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Reviewing Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Writing a book about Paul Gauguin today means confronting a question that shadows nearly every discussion…
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Whispers Between the Pages
A century-old book filled with the voices of the dead… and the markings of the living.…
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The Poison in the Walls
Victorian homes were beautiful—and deadly. Bright green wallpaper, all the rage in the 1800s, contained arsenic…
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The One Who Didn’t Leave a Trace
H. C. Bunner’s The Story of a New-York House reflects on the lives that leave little…
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Undelivered: Lost Letters and Hidden Truths
The Dead Letter is a podcast that uncovers forgotten history through undelivered letters and lost texts.…
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Book Review: Julian Onderdonk’s Lost Paintings
Julian Onderdonk is best known today as a painter of misty landscapes covered in bluebonnets. His…
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New Book Explores Julian Onderdonk’s New York Years
In Julian Onderdonk in New York: The Lost Years, the Lost Paintings, an illustrated book published…
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Book Review: Red Land, Black land – Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz
If one walks through the Egyptian collection at Met, he or she can easily get lost.…
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The Warhol Economy, by Elizabeth Currid
Book review by Eric Miller At the time he turned forty the painter Martin Johnson Heade…