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The most arrogant man in France

From LA Weekly, resistance is futile: How Takashi Murakami remade the world in his image. The anti-Chagall: A review of They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. A review of The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu. Hidden fires: She depicted Scotland in all its raw, shabby glory, but Joan Eardley’s art has long been unjustly ignored. Why? From The Globalist, an article on New London Architecture: How is once-classical London remaking itself into a modern city? A review of Canadian Churches: An Architectural History by Peter Richardson and Douglas Richardson and Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory by Jane Irwin. From The New York Observer, Robert A.M. Stern, the well-initialled dean of the Yale School of Architecture, doesn’t apologize for his chauffeur’s room at 15 CPW, his suede loafers, his fondness for the past or his designing for George W. Bush.