From the terrace of his home on the crest of a hill, an old professor peers through a spyglass at the scene unfolding below on the sand and waters of the Riviera. Calgues is his name—his ancestors built this house 300 years earlier—and he is studying the beginning of an extraordinary invasion: 100 ships and…
The Enemy Within: Jean Raspail’s ‘The Camp of the Saints’ 50 Years Later
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Proud Rebel’: A Meditation on Masculinity in the Wild West
PG | 1 h 43 min | Drama, Western | 1958 Weary from the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldier John Chandler (Alan Ladd) rides into an Illinois town. His 10-year-old son, David (David Ladd), so tiny he’s barely seen, sits back to back with his father and grins at his dog, Lance (King, a real-life champion…
Theater Review: ‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’: A Romantic Time Travel Adventure
CHICAGO—Many may never have heard of Ernest Shackleton, a British explorer who took off on an Antarctic Expedition in 1914 with the goal of crossing that frozen continent. His ship became stuck in ice and was slowly crushed. Shackleton with a few of his crew traveled 800 miles in a small lifeboat to seek help…
Highlighting Endangered Heritage Crafts in the UK
What does arrowsmithing, coppersmithing, and straw hat making have in common? They are three of the eleven heritage crafts that have been newly classified as “critically endangered” in the UK, meaning that those craft skills could disappear in a generation. Sights such as Cornish coppersmith Francis Cargeeg working in his workshop in 1951 are now…
The Making of a Renaissance Master: Alonso Berruguete’s Rise to Prominence
May 15, 2023
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Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightFlorenceItalian renaissanceMichelangeloRenaissance sculpturewood sculptor
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In 1504, the young and ambitious Spanish artist Alonso Berruguete arrived in Italy with an aspiration to become part of the elite artistic world of the High Renaissance. Undertrained in comparison, he made the risky move not knowing if, or when, he would succeed. Only two years were necessary for those questions to be answered….
The Army of Children That Saved Their City From Floodwaters
May 14, 2023
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Forty-one years ago this March, the citizens of Fort Wayne, Indiana, were in a desperate battle against rising floodwaters threatening to utterly engulf their city. And they were losing. Mountains of piled-up, heavy winter snow—81 inches had fallen that season—combined with an unseasonably warm March thaw, had swollen the St. Joseph, St. Marys, and Maumee…
Film Review: ‘Sanctuary’: A Clever Commentary on Today’s Gender Power Balance
R | 1h 36m | Thriller, Rom-Com | May 19, 2023 So here’s the dilemma: Our publication would like to offer uplifting fare—my particular beat being cinema. And yet The Epoch Times is also a legitimate bastion of traditional journalism; we need to be able to report on all kinds of stuff. However, we live in time…
The Power of the Dog: Centuries of Canines in Art
Tens of thousands of years ago, though the exact date is disputed, dogs were domesticated by humans. Likewise, the depiction of canines in art has a rich history that runs the gamut. Dogs have made their appearances in early cave and rock paintings, ancient Greek ceramics, Roman mosaics, medieval tapestries and statues, as well as…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Quiet Girl’ (‘An Cailin Ciuin’): A Quiet Triumph
PG-13 | 1h 35m | October 16, 2022 (United States) Irish director’s Colm Bairead’s “An Cailin Ciuin” (“The Quiet Girl”) is the first Irish language film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. It’s a triumph in many ways. It has the audacity to show Irish men and women as real human beings, not…
Artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Penchant for Motherly Love
May 14, 2023
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Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBeaux-ArtsBouguereauBrightFrench Academic ArtNeoclassicalTraditional Culture
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A sample of paintings by 19th-century French artist, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, expresses a talent fascinated by the tender beauty of womanhood. Regarded today as one of the best painters of human anatomy, he breathed life into his figures by capturing the subtle nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau’s appreciation for young mothers reached a classical reverence…
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