David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.
Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.
To say it immediately, Nadine Sierra proved herself a great singer at the Metropolitan Opera last night. The company began a run of La sonnambula, Bellini’s opera of 1831. I will return to Ms. Sierra ...
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