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Don’t Build the Arch

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By Sebastian Smee Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
The meanings of words such as honor, sacrifice, and humility have been leaking away from American civic life like red blood cells from an anemic. But if there’s one place where they retain their rich, sticky, life-giving force, it’s surely in the air around the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery is where Americans remember those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.
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The Venice Biennale and the Art Lover’s Dilemma

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By Sebastian Smee Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
The forced excitement accompanying each new iteration of the Venice Biennale, I’ve heard it said, is akin to a faked orgasm—at some point, it’s probably better to stop.
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The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land

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By Sebastian Smee Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
In Curzio Malaparte’s perverse and irksome novel “The Skin,” an American Army officer stationed in a devastated southern Italy in 1943 exclaims, “Ah Europe! What an extraordinary place it is. I need Europe, to make me conscious of being an American.” The officer—“an American in the noblest sense of the word,” a man with a “delicacy of feeling” prone to blushing at the sight of the degradation all around him—seems to be talking about European culture, of which he is in awe.
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