In Review roundup

As featured on - In Review roundup: 'Realms of Seduction,' 'For Piet’s Sake — Old and New Paintings: Robert Storr' and 'Fritz Scholder: Diversity of Brilliance'

From the review: CORRALES — “The Orient,” that vast region stretching from North Africa to South Asia, was “almost a European invention,” Edward Said wrote in his groundbreaking 1978 book, “Orientalism.” The idea of a Muslim world full of exotic, hypersexualized beings was always a colonialist fantasy, kept alive by centuries of European writers and artists, including Jean-Léon Gérôme, whose 1880 painting of a nude snake charmer graced Said’s book’s original cover.