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Articles by John Bentley Mays

Visual Art

The Garden of Subjection

For Vancouver pioneer Jeff Wall, politics and beauty do mix

Architecture

The Other Side of Darkness

Out of the ashes of the World Trade Center comes a new vision for tall buildings in the contemporary world

Books

Walking off the Map

Hymns to the unknown city beneath our feet

Art

A Dandy for Our Times

Jean Cocteau dined, fought, or collaborated with anyone who was anyone in avant-garde Paris. But his own art was ignored, dismissed as the work of a frivolous queen. A new retrospective hopes to change that

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