The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies

The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies

The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to Picasso’s “Nude Woman in a Red Armchair,” but Yuskavage’s ladies are, indeed, of a particular kind, and could quite easily be taken for what the artist’s husband, Matvey Levenstein, jokingly called “stroke material for…

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Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?

Why Is It So Hard to Be Ordinary?

Society as a whole is shaped by the relentless pursuit of excellence in every domain. Cars and houses get bigger and bigger. Grades inflate forever. Kids join travel teams, spending hours driving to competitions with other mini-athletes, and parents become super-parents, spending more hours with their children than in previous generations. “There’s a lot of…

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Samsung workers vote on hefty pay and bonus package

Samsung workers vote on hefty pay and bonus package

FILE PHOTO – Head of Samsung Electronics Co.’s device solutions division’s people team Yeo Myeong-gu (L) and chief of Samsung’s largest labor union Choi Seung-ho (R) hold hands with Labor Minister Kim Young-hoon at the Gyeonggi District Employment and Labor Office in Suwon, Seoul, after reaching an agreement on a wage deal a day before…

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August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

August Sander’s Enormous Attempt to Capture a Lost World

Still, objectivity is never really objective, and the camera’s putatively clinical perspective had long been used by eugenicists to peddle hateful pseudoscience about the skull sizes and brow shapes of “criminal types” and so-called lesser races. (This history is largely absent from Yale’s admirable just-the-art, ma’am, presentation, curated by Judy Ditner.) Yet Sander’s pictures rarely…

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