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Brinksmanship

Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography

by Norman Mailer


Learning from Las Vegas

The Luck Business: The Devastating Consequences and Broken Promises of America's Gambling Explosion

by Robert Goodman

The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada's Casinos

by Ronald A. Farrell and Carole Case

Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas

by Nicholas Pileggi

Casino

a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese

Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn

by John L. Smith


An Affair to Remember

Carrington

an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London

Carrington

a film directed by Christopher Hampton


Dangerous Liaison

Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger

by Elzbieta Ettinger


Vermeer’s Mystery Theater

Johannes Vermeer 12, 1995-February 11, 1996

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, November

Johannes Vermeer Hague/ Yale University Press

catalog of the exhibition edited by Arthur K. Jr. Wheelock


Melting into Air

The Island of the Day Before

by Umberto Eco, translated from Italian by William Weaver

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman


Cracking the Bird Code

Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations

by C. K. Catchpole and P. J. B. Slater


Under Cézanne’s Spell

Cézanne

an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25, 1995
January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8
April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30
August 18, 1996, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin and Joseph J. R

Cézanne: A Biography

by John Rewald

Paul Cézanne: The Bathers

by Mary Louise Krumrine

Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne

by Philip Callow

Cézanne

by Richard Verdi

Cézanne

by Philippe Dagen

Le Paradis de Cézanne

by Philippe Sollers

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Subversives

Berlin-Moscow 1900-1950 1995-January 7, 1996; and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 1-July 1, 1996

An exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, September 3,, Catalog of the exhibition by Irina Antonova and Jörn Merkert

Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930-45 1995-January 21, 1996, continuing on to Barcelona, February 26-May 6, 1996, and Berlin, June 7-August 20, 1996

An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 26,, Catalog of the exhibition by Dawn Ades and Tim Benton and David Elliott and Iain Boyd Whyte

Von Allen Seiten Schön [Beautiful from All Sides] Museum, Berlin, October 31, 1995-January 28, 1996

An exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes at the Altes, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Volker Krahn


The Hovering Life

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike


A Mess of Improprieties

Human Rights Watch World Report 1996: Events of 1995


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