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...show until mid-November. The Merzbachers, both German-born, moved from the U.S. in 1964 to Switzerland, where Werner, then 36, joined the fur business begun by Gabrielle's paternal grandfather Bernhard Meyer. In the 1970s, the Merzbachers began putting together one of the best private collections of 20th century art. They already had inherited some great pictures from Mayer, who owned important works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Matisse. And with these for inspiration, the Merzbachers began building a collection suffused with bright, often violent color. As strange as it may seem, at the start...
...Surrealism 1919-1944," the show that's breaking attendance records at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in D?sseldorf. So do Dali, Miró, Ernst, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti and a host of others belonging to the movement that curator Werner Spies is not afraid to call the most important of the 20th century - "because all the greatest artists of the century were connected with it." With 500 paintings and sculptures, the show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits an entire wall from the Paris studio of Surrealism's ideological father...
...20th century is often said to have begun on Aug. 1, 1914, with the opening attacks of what became the Long War--a war that eventually encompassed the First and Second World Wars, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the cold war. When the Long War finally ended, with the reunification of Germany and the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, we thought we would have peace because we had resolved the question that bound all these wars into one: What form of the nation-state--fascist, communist or parliamentarian--would...
...constantly be updated. For most of the past 1,000 years, architecture meant church design above all. Michelangelo, Bernini, Wren--to be an architect was chiefly to build houses for God, a demanding client but one who could make your name if you got things right. Then came the 20th century. Office towers and football stadiums pushed cathedrals into the cultural limbo occupied by library cards--those things we know we should revere but don't use as much as we used to. A church, after all, is where you think about death and eternity. A lot of people think...
After being shot down over Bosnia in 1995, U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady survived for days by eating insects. Surviving in Hollywood may prove equally arduous. O'Grady filed suit last week against 20th Century Fox, claiming that the 2001 movie Behind Enemy Lines, about a U.S. soldier shot down over Bosnia, ripped him off. But last November, before he saw the film, O'Grady told TIME he had read the script and wasn't bothered by similarities. "Anything that's semipatriotic is good because I'm patriotic," he said. A Fox representative says, "We were surprised because...