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Paul Fleischman is a Newbery Award-winning author of books for both children and young adult readers. He blends musical language with quirky looks at the world, viewed through the lens of human and natural history. "I'm a maker at heart," Fleischman decl...

For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped...

For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped...

The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke ("The Bridge") derived their name from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts of the period. (The key passage reads: "What is great about a man is that he...

Fame hasn’t always been kind to the reputation of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), whose drawings are now featured in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s owing to his fame, after all, that van Gogh is still so often described as a deranged...