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Nicholson is coming up to his 85th birthday now. It is doubtful whether any other English artist has had a comparable effect on the development of abstract art. For several decades, his muted, delicately cut reliefs and abstracted images of still life and landscape formed the main link between English art and the cubist-constructivist tradition in Europe. Nicholson was born too late, and in the wrong country, to be one of the inventors of this tradition. Instead he became one of its most gifted, sensitive and celebrated propagators...
...glass of wine, a siesta-and a rare day off from the easel. Joan Miró decided to take it easy on his 85th birthday. "The older I get, the more I do," he said. Laboring seven hours a day in his hilltop studio on the Spanish island of Majorca, he finishes one or two works a week and has also completed a tapestry for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. An especially exciting prospect is an upcoming retrospective exhibition in Madrid, to be opened by King Juan Carlos. It will mean that after 40 years of Franco...
Lowell Thomas just keeps on schussing-even on his 85th birthday. A ski trip to the Canadian Rockies ended a 50,000-mile honeymoon for the peripatetic broadcaster and his second wife, Marianna Munn, 49. The couple married on Jan. 5 and wandered through the South Seas, the Far East, the Himalayas, Alaska and other exotic spots that Thomas has visited in his 60 or so years of roving the globe. Now back home in Pawling, N. Y., he is hard at work on his 54th book-the second volume of his autobiography, So Long Until Tomorrow-and is also...
...prodigy of eleven; Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein once played piano in its dance studios for $1 an hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket and inspired $1.2 million in contributions to the impoverished...
Twenty years ago, Ernst was still a minority taste (a large minority, it is true). But when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile trickster, and we will not see his like again. He was, with the more phlegmatic Rene Magritte, the best of all the artists connected with surrealism-the master of the "alternative" tradition of mystery, unreason and demonic...