Far from in paradise, I mostly just found myself lost.

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Far from in paradise, I mostly just found myself lost.

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ROME — The Lysippus will return to Italy. The statue portrays a victorious, naked and full-sized athlete and is attributed to the proto-Hellenistic sculptor Lysippus. Bought in 1977, the statue is currently on exhibit at the Getty …

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Daniel Mendelsohn offers a lengthy review essay in the latest New Yorker in response to Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History. The review itself offers quite an intelligent history …

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But for Some Stolen Pears: A History of Memoir « BREVITY's …

The future Museum of the City of Rome, with a planned 2013 inauguration, will not only be a container for art and will not only have on show the extraordinary Torlonia collection, but will also include …

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Among those things impacted by Obama’s cool rationality are all of America’s international relationships … and in particular the role of history in those relationships. While cognizant of historical context in an academic sense, …

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In her superb foreign-policy speech today at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary Clinton (with her right arm free from a sling) presented an “ambitious agenda” that included the call for a different “global …

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Here’s a fascinating, short video clip– just under two minutes long — of Andrew Lippman of the MIT Media Lab discussing the need to develop “open-architecture products” that users can customize. A few highlights of Lippman’s comments: …

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