The Ubiquitous Proust
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The abstruse French writer is popping up everywhere these days- in movies, TV, even newspapers. Is he trying to tell us something?
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's "de Kooning: An American Master" traces the painter's history and plumbs the mysteries of his cryptic work in a remarkably lucid narrative.
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A commercial photographer and train buffâs works seem at once folksy and uncanny, with phallic monsters of industrial dynamism racing through benign, Norman Rockwell-esque visions of semirural America.
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Memories of China's Cultural Revolution have forged some of its most provacative contemporary art.
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Arts & entertainment: Some of the most radical buildings ever made owe their existence to Cecil Balmond. Jonathan Glancey salutes the engineer who defies belief.
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One by one, several French writers and intellectuals are making the startling confessions.Comment
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Mr. Robbe-Grillet was one of Franceâs most important avant-garde writers in the 1950s.
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Musings on sleep from scientists, philosophers, artists and more.
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In this brilliant work of history, France dissolves under close inspection into  an endless series of counterexamples to the myth of a culturally unified nation and people.
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In âBook of Longing,â Philip Glass illuminates Leonard Cohenâs poetry with a chamber score that breathes naturally and gracefully.
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The Moment's fragrance expert reviews a five-star masterpiece ...
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It's the birthplace of the transistor, the laser, the solar cell and the fax machine. Its researchers were the first to hear the echoes of the Big Bang. And now this American legend is part of a French company.
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In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Arthur Rimbaud. They called him a bard, a shaman and a master of "art as revenge."
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The Museum of Modern Art presents an Abbas Kiarostami retrospective that covers more than three decades of the artistâs films and photographs.
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How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
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My tour of âThe Age of Rembrandt,â the Metâs show of 17th-century Dutch paintings, includes something of everything: the familiar with the seldom seen.
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TIME.comix on a pair of outstanding showcases