El Greco’s View of Toledo — A City Painted from the Inside Out
Every landscape carries a mood. Most painters work to suppress it — to render the…
Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys: Political Philosophy in Three-Minute Bursts
Punk didn’t ask your permission. That was the whole point. It arrived like a fist…
Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer — A Portrait of the Mind in Conflict
There is a reproduction of this painting mounted on wood in my living room —…
Ride the Lightning: Metallica, Fade Away
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Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates — Conviction, Hemlock, and the Price of the Examined Life
Painted in 1787, two years before the guillotine became the symbol of French revolutionary justice,…
Deserve’s Got Nothing to Do with It: Why Unforgiven Is the Greatest American Western Ever Made
Thirty-three years after its release, Unforgiven still hasn’t loosened its grip. Not on critics, not…
