On an exceptionally hot July evening, a crowd was mingling and drinking wine at an art opening on Polidefkous Street. An unassuming thoroughfare lined with low-slung ship-repair and metal workshops in Piraeus, the industrial port city on Athens’s southeast side, it is not a place where galleries have historically set
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For a Fractured Israel, a Film Offers Ominous Lessons From Ancient Past
JERUSALEM — A gripping political thriller swept across cinema screens in Israel this summer, with the movie prompting impassioned debate and striking a particularly resonant chord with Israel’s precarious new government. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a right-winger, urged lawmakers to see the film during a recent, stormy session of Parliament.
A Ceramist Who Draws on His Craft’s Ancient Global Traditions
“I was an incredibly naughty teenager,” says the ceramist Matthias Kaiser, who grew up in the Austrian city of Graz. “One day I just disappeared.” In 1989, at age 19, he sold his car and bought a one-way plane ticket to New York in the hopes of becoming a jazz
Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89
Mrs. Kagan, who taught elementary school and wrote two books about the history of New Haven, Conn., died in 2017. Along with his sons, Professor Kagan is survived by two grandchildren. Professor Kagan’s “On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace” (1994), which argued that leaders need to