Arts & Culture
“Becoming the Sea” surveys the sublime
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott visits the current exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea,” the first American retrospective of the German artist in 20 years.
Paganism
Column: Reclining Pan
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Pan lies at the end of a hallway on the first floor of the St. Louis Art Museum, stretched out on his back on a bed of stone. In his right hand, he holds his pipes, ready to bring them to his lips for a song; he rests his head against his other arm, his left hand toying with the head of a goat whose skin the god wears as a cloak. Bunches of grapes rest between his shaggy feet. A tiny salamander crawls near his right hoof.