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Uncle Satchmo?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS EYE-CATCHING collage is a self-portrait of sorts by Louis Armstrong, one of many assemblages...
Reason, 10/01/08 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Warhol goes to China
THIS LOOKS a lot like a Godfrey Kneller portrait of William III painted in the 17th century, but it's actually a copy of Kneller painted the other...
Reason, 12/01/07 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Bending art history
THIS ISN'T AN abstract expressionist canvas. It's a quilt. It comes from Gee's Bend, Alabama, where an isolated black community long ago developed...
Reason, 06/01/07 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Flood assurance: Koranic weather forecast
MASSIVE TSUNAMIS will wipe out the United States in 2007, according to Ziad Silwadi. The Palestinian Koranic scholar has become convinced that...
Reason, 08/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Beyond Arabism: music videos and Lebanese revolution
Throughout Lebanon's recent assertion of political independence, a striking video hovered near the top of the region's music and video charts: Issa...
Reason, 06/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
The changing face of old St. Nick
THIS STATUE OF SANTA--in the style made familiar by Coca-Cola ads, and postured like a Salvation Army bell ringer--stands year-round in the main...
Reason, 06/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Inciting censorship: Brits vs. blasphemy
BRITISH PRIME Minister Tony Blair's government has added a measure to the proposed Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill that would create a new...
Reason, 05/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Madrassas molesters: clerical abuse in the Islamic world
A MINISTER IN Pakistan's religious affairs department says there were 500 complaints last year of child sex abuse by clerics in madrassas, Muslim...
Reason, 04/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Let freedom sing: Iran's mystery diva
IN IRAN WOMEN are not allowed to sing solo when men are present. But according to the Middle East news site Al Bawaba, "aggravated young Iranians...
Reason, 04/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication -
Labyrinths of identity: does it change Borges' fiction to know about Borges' life?
JORGE LUIS BORGES, the great Argentine writer, first encountered Cervantes' Don Quixote in his father's library, in an English-language...
Reason, 03/01/05 by Charles Paul Freund · More from publication
