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As any student of French history knows, it doesn't require a presidential order to generate argument about a proposal - especially one that detractors suspect is fueled by political motives. Sarkozy, political opponents allege, is using the museum push as another sop to voters on the hard right, many of...
Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pa. (pop. 140), and Cushing, Me. (pop. 130), stands high and apart from the mainstream of American art. Manhattan-centered abstract expressionism has in the past two decades given a multitude of new answers to the central questions: What is painting? What is art? What...
His temperas are in major American museums, from Manhattan's Met and Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be...
The tradition of a farewell address began with George Washington. His stern defense of an independent America free of foreign entanglements and deaf to the intrigues of Europe was the nation's first great speech. Citizens in villages across the country staged annual recitations for decades after Washington's death...
Holder, currently a partner in the prestigious Washington law firm Covington & Burling, has kept with tradition and stayed mum in advance of the hearing. But an Obama transition official says that Holder believes the Attorney General should "serve the American people, not the President, not any one political party," and...