War in Ukraine: airstrikes, drones and a looming counteroffensive
This week saw heightened tensions in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. A wave of drone strikes hit the Russian capital Tuesday morning, bringing the war to Moscow for the first…
Seventeen enigmatic religious portraits by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, produced in the last years of his life, have been assembled for the first time in an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Diane and her guests discuss the paintings and the unresolved questions they raise.
Guests
- Blake Gopnik Chief art critic, "Washington Post"
- Arthur Wheelock Curator of northern baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art and professor of art history at the University of Maryland.
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