Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paris Review interviews, collected and published periodically as Writers at Work, have been conducted for more than 30 years (the Paris Review recently turned out its 100th issue). It is a safe bet that 30 and even 300 years from now these conversations will be invaluable to students of 20th century literature...
...building was once the grandest railway station in France. As the Musee d'Orsay, opening next week, it is now the world's best museum of its kind. Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive. The Musee d'Orsay is to this period what the Uffizi is to the Italian Renaissance or the Museum of Modern Art to the 20th century. There are some masterpieces it will never get, but as a discourse of objects from a given period...
...which, before its collection was moved across the Seine last summer, was attracting three-quarters of a million visitors annually to gaze at its superb Cezannes, Monets, Renoirs, Van Goghs and Lautrecs. There was a residue of 19th century work from Paris' former Musee National d'Art Moderne, whose 20th century collections had already been siphoned off into the Centre Pompidou. Major sculptures, including Rodin's original plasters, came from the Rodin museum in Paris; others were recovered from obscurity in warehouses where they had languished unseen since before World War II. Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Museum of Decorative Arts...
Author and activist Amiri Baraka and exiled South African lawyer Bojana Jordan joined Isaac at a "teach-in" at the Longfellow School of Education. The informal event was part of a ten-day celebration of the Education for Action (E4A) Committee's 20th anniversary...
...painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...