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I really wonder where you got that idea. I’m going to defend Steve on this one. My understanding of “whipping boy” is merely someone who is punished for another’s transgressions, in other words a scapegoat. As far as I knew the term is completely free of racial connotations and always has...

For some reason I can't remember I spent a couple of days in Stockbridge Mass, Norman Rockwell's home town, a few years ago. I did not visit the Norman Rockwell museum though. The other attraction in Stockbridge was Alice's Restaurant (where you can get anything you want ... except Alice), but...

Of course, absolutely! I was actually thinking of Christina's World when I wrote the initial post but I couldn't remember the artist or the name of the picture. It's hard for me to pick out an individual Pollock work, but Convergence certainly captures his essence. I saw an exhibition of...

Although I am neither British nor Australian, I have always admired the painting “The Last of England,” by Ford Madox Brown. Recently I googled it and found that the British public had voted it in as #8 on the list of favorite paintings. I found myself idly wondering how popular it was in...

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I am reading David Grann’s The Wager, a ripping yarn from the days of sail and ships of the line, involving typhoons, wrecks, mutiny, murder, you name it. The thing is, it’s a true story, very lightly fictionalized by Grann, who did an enormous amount of meticulous research into his subject. His...

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