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DIED. Heinz Berggruen, 93, German Jewish art collector turned unofficial diplomat; outside Paris. The Berlin-born Berggruen, who specialized in the works of 20th century artists, such as Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and his good friend Pablo Picasso, fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. and later established an esteemed gallery in postwar Paris. In the mid-1990s he famously moved his formidable collection to Berlin. Hailed for the conciliatory gesture by a once exiled Jew, he helped reinvigorate Germany's collection of modern art, earlier dismissed as degenerate by Hitler...
Harvard students should all know that “pain relievers provide high blood pressure risk for men” and recent discoveries in “medieval Islamic architecture [presage] 20th century mathematics.” At least that’s what one would think after looking at my.harvard.edu, Harvard’s ubiquitous web portal, where such information is prominently displayed under the banner “Harvard Happenings.” Indeed, for someone who hasn’t seen the Web site before, the notion that my.harvard, which turns seven years old in just...
...rising prominence of Future Systems is one more sign of the remarkable shift in architectural taste over the past decade. One of these days someone will write a revisionist history of 20th century architecture that will trace the survival of a line. I don't mean a bloodline. I mean an actual line, a ribboning, curving one with sources in plant life and cellular forms and the swells and inlets of the human body. It was that undulating line that Modernism almost did away with when it swept into power in the middle of the 20th century, stomping its robot...
...Khazei described himself as a “rugged idealist,” citing that quality as a primary reason behind the creation of City Year. Along with college roommate Michael H. Brown ’83, Khazei founded the organization in 1988 in Boston. Now in its 20th year, City Year is a member of AmeriCorps and has programs in 17 cities around the country. The organization was built, according to its Web site, on the belief that “one person can make a difference, and with the vision that one day service will be a common...
...studio practice in his hometown of Vancouver, Wall took his family on a trip to Europe, where he spent a lot of time looking at the old masters in the Prado. His hours with Velzquez, Zurbarn and Goya got him thinking. Was it still possible, in the 20th century, to make representational art with anything like the same power? He happened to be traveling by bus at the time and at each terminal his attention was grabbed by those backlit light boxes that display ads. A light came on in his head...