Arts

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An Art of Life

Carvaggio’s extraordinary painting changes an ordinary life, while Karl Ove Knausgård’s ordinary life makes extraordinary literature
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Nose to the Glass

The Met Cloisters is a place of grand gestures—but at this particular exhibit, we observers are taking time to see the small
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Outdoorsy Types

If you were to judge plein-air painting by the societies that specialize in, and set rules for, painting outdoors, you might think it a highly fussy field of art.
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Holy Cities

In the artist Brian Whelan’s vision of a holy city, the old order of distrust, violence, and tears has passed away.
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'John le Carré'

Adam Sisman's new biography of le Carré—cartoonist, actor, mimic, linguist, expert skier,and spy—is intelligent, thoroughly researched, and tediously repetitive.
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'Beatlebone'

Barry’s new novel—featuring John Lennon as protagonist—meditates on place, grief, and longing, ranging across a century’s worth of literary and popular references.
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