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Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture recently bolstered its modern-art scholarship by naming art historian, editor, critic, and curator Benjamin Buchloh the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art, effective September 1.
“Of the scholars working on post-1945 art today, Buchloh is perhaps the only one for whom the question, raised by Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central...
Together, the hotel's houses and château are known as Les Deux Abbesses (lesdeuxabbesses.com)-named after Isabel and Gabrielle de Lafayette, two 16th century mothers superior (and ancestors of the Franco-American revolutionary, Marquis de Lafayette), who used Saint-Arcons-d'Allier as their summer retreat. They would...
Today, the village looks smarter than it ever has: where tractors once lay rusting, Ferraris and suvs now gleam, their owners ensconced in Les Deux Abbesses' luxurious embrace. "We have created a company that employs more than 20 workers, 90% of them local," says Hermet, "and we have worked toward...
Between his professional flowering in the 1880s and his death in 1907, Saint-Gaudens was seen as proof that America could produce art--an ability that, his patrons felt, went hand in hand with the triumph of the industrial Northeast after the Civil War. He gave the crude, grabbing Republic...