What readers really want is dastardly deeds by dark, despicable men, or saucy wenches with pert breasts displayed like fresh fruit on a platter.
By Garrison Keillor Jan 14, 2009
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We're going bankrupt and losing our house because he refuses to take a job.
By Cary Tennis
April 28, 2009
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The photo-realist painter discusses whether a bad economy breeds creativity, and ways that President Obama should help the arts.
February 16, 2009
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The billion-dollar scrapbooking industry may be cheesy, but as author Jessica Helfand explains, there's rich history in that glitter and glue.
By Joy Press
December 4, 2008
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Beijing's artists deserve a gold for the sheer wealth of their audacity and talent.
By John Krich
August 18, 2008
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I see this dazzling world full of art and fun -- how do I connect to it?
By Cary Tennis
November 14, 2008
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Can great art spring from a lie? Two new books about forgers raise provocative questions about the links between authenticity and genius.
By Louis Bayard
August 14, 2008
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The Eternal City is too vast and ancient to grasp, and the harder you try, the more it slips away. So you have to dream your way into it.
By Gary Kamiya
July 22, 2008
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The architect discusses his work, the color white and the difference between buildings and art.
April 7, 2008
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From glamour-pusses to global warming, criminal mug shots to art stars, Salon's seasonal guide to coffee-table books has something to enchant just about everyone.
December 14, 2007
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Did novelist George Eliot anticipate the ability of the brain to grow new cells? Did chef Auguste Escoffier foretell the science of the palate? Jonah Lehrer thinks so.
By Jonathon Keats
November 20, 2007
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I do good work but I fear I'm mediocre, and my heart is poisoned with jealousy.
By Cary Tennis
October 5, 2007
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Get a grip. We have passed the great test of a republic to survive the most incompetent leadership ever.
By Garrison Keillor
September 19, 2007
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I know it's part of the game, but it's beginning to defeat me.
By Cary Tennis
August 13, 2007
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A certain 50-ish lothario lured a student into his office and made clumsy advances. Should a complaint be lodged?
By Cary Tennis
May 23, 2007
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I don't want to be a laughingstock, but I am a creative type!
By Cary Tennis
April 25, 2007
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Snow sends the Cleveland Indians to seek shelter in Milwaukee. There's a lesson there. Plus: Really bad baseball art. And: NHL playoffs.
April 10, 2007
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My mom left all her artwork to me, but it's not really my aesthetic. Would I be a terrible daughter if I took them down?
By Cary Tennis
April 5, 2007
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A teacher gets suspended for attempting to teach art history.
By Rebecca Traister
October 3, 2006
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A painter in dire straits, his simple brother and a ravishing femme fatale light up prizewinning author Peter Carey's masterly new art-world mystery.
By Laura Miller
May 10, 2006
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Who were the women who most profoundly influenced the legendary composer? At the 250th anniversary of his birth, we find out.
By George Rafael
January 9, 2006
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Woman cocoons self in red yarn for sake of humanity!
By H.H.
January 7, 2006
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"Daredevil" suffered for years under Frank Miller's shadow, but Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev made it one of the most engrossing comics of the last decade.
By Douglas Wolk
January 5, 2006
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Photography collector and editor Peter Fetterman talks about the naked woman as landscape -- and why women look hotter reading Proust.
By David Bowman
December 24, 2003
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Armed only with ancient film, scraps of paper, broken buildings and an irrepressible passion to create, Baghdad's artists are emerging from the long darkness of Saddam.
By Jen Banbury
December 11, 2003
Girlish, moody fiction? No thanks
My husband is too creative to work
Big Think: Chuck Close on making art during a recession
Beyond the valley of the doilies
The naked city
A fraud's life
Roman holiday
The look books
"Proust Was a Neuroscientist"
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Really bad trip ... to a museum
"Theft"
Mozart's muses
The chronicles of yarnia
Secrets, lies -- and lawyers!
The man who loved women
Out of the shadows
Glenn Greenwald
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