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Attention Economy - November 4, 2023

Edgar Degas. Ballet Rehearsal. Oil on canvas. 1885-1891. Yale University Art Gallery. [Source: NPR]] Degas’ Dancers: Behind The Scenes, At The Barre : NPR 110311 It’s not often that an art show makes visitors stand up straighter. But Degas’s Dancers … Continue reading






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Looking Back (Demurely) Over A Quarter Million Page Views

This site crossed a quantitative threshold last night when it surpassed 250,000 page views. It was almost two years to the day when I installed the WordPress.com stat counter to measure Internet traffic here, and a little more than seven … Continue reading






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100,000 Strolls In The Flaneur’s Gallery

Edgar Degas. Spartan Girls Provoking Boys. c.1860-62. National Gallery, London. Sometime last night this blog logged its 100,000th page view. By Internet standards that is a paltry number, but it pleases me in modest ways. Nothing of my making has … Continue reading






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Degas and the Impressionists

Edgar Degas. The Cotton Exchange. 1873 From Jeffrey Meyers’ Impressionist Quartet (p. 168): Though Degas recruited the Impressionist painters, he freely criticized their work. He maintained that Monet created nothing but beautiful decorations, and at an exhibition of brightly colored … Continue reading






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Degas: Spartan Girls Provoking Boys

Edgar Degas. Spartan Girls Provoking Boys. c.1860-62. National Gallery, London. I’ve never cared much for the paintings of Edgar Degas. I’ve stood before his canvases at the National Gallery of Art many times over the years, but they failed to … Continue reading






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