Tag Archives: John Singer Sargent

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 12, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Man Into Marble’ – Corin Throsby and Kathryn Sutherland on the real Byron; Anthony Burgess on music; Left in charge at the palazzo; Revolutionary Russia; A shorter Long Day’s Journey and What is lyric verse?…

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 5, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 3, 2024): The ‘The Art Issue’ features ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ – Tom Seymour Evans: Carson McCullers’s unruly life; Violence and Climate Change; Posing for John Singer Sargent and Huckleberry Jim – Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story…

Life at the sad café

Carson McCullers, 1939

Carson McCullers: a novelist of the marginalized and ‘those struggling to understand who they are’

By Tom Seymour Evan

Huckleberry Jim

Eddie Hodges and Archie Moore in The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, 1961

Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story

By Clifford Thompson

Nods and winks of recognition

Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

Percival Everett’s wry, provocative novel on the publishing world brought to the screen

By Colin Grant

Art Exhibits: “Fashioned By Sargent” At MFA Boston

PBS NewsHour (November 29, 2023) – The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more than a hundred years later.

Fashioned by Sargent

October 8, 2023–January 15, 2024

Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.