Last spring in Berlin, Peter Doig and Hilton Als co-curated an exhibition of portraits —mostly by young, unrecognized or forgotten artists—a show that included a rare look at the work of the remarkable but little known 20th-century Trinidadian painter Boscoe Holder (1921–2007). Here is a selection of his work, along with excerpts of a conversation I had with Doig and Als about the artist and his ...

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Discovering the Art of Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian Master

Rare documents and books from the library vaults are part of the latest exhibit in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Lee Library opens ‘Literary Worlds: Illumination of the Mind’ exhibit

Ignatz Isaac Bick was a scholar and rabbi in Frankfurt, Germany when the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s. He and his wife Mira saw their chance to leave the country and shipped their possessions to the port of Hamburg, then migrated to England.

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After 70 years, Nazi-looted books returned

Seattle author Jayne Ann Krentz's latest "Arcane Society" novel leads off this week's list of titles of local interest.

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Local books: A Seattle environmental-activism history, a study of 'design thinking' and a paranormal romance or two

Book review: John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" tells the mesmerizing true-life story of the hunt for a man-killing Siberian tiger. Vaillant, the Canadian author who wrote the acclaimed 2005 book "The Golden Spruce," discusses his book this week at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.

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'The Tiger': John Vaillant's mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival

After slashing the listing price on the Frank Lloyd Wright textile=block house in the past two years from $7,733,000 to $4,995,000 and not finding a buyer, Crosby Doe says he's "talking to an international art dealer with Japanese art-collector clients who might be interested in buying the house."

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Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright houses languish on the market

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Holocaust survivor and author of more than 50 books, has accepted an appointment as a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University....

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Elie Wiesel Joins Chapman University, to Guide Undergrads Spring Semesters Through 2015

With celebrity gossip sites buzzing over Angelina Jolie's comment that her 4-year-old daughter, Shiloh, wants to be a boy, media reports spotlighting rare cases of transgender children and even children's books beginning to tackle the issue, concerned parents are sifting through a lot of contradictory information.

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When kids cross the gender divide

Even with another awful performance by Javier Vazquez, it looked like the Yankees' 9-5 victory over the Mariners yesterday would go into the books as a feel-good story about Eduardo Nunez, the plucky infield prospect who was finally in the majors after nearly seven full seasons of toil in the bushes. Nunez's game-winning RBI in his first career start was overshadowed by the news that Alex ...

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Nunez fills the bill

Cabot-native Ethan Azarian, now living in Austin, Texas, will give a rare Vermont performance on Saturday in a 7 p.m. concert at the Adamant Community Club.

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Ethan Azarian: Following a tradition home