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...Glace, while artificial light bouncing off the ice creates the effect of fairy dust across the canvas. Not a huge fan of the Pointillists, Senn nevertheless acquired a glistening Beach of the Vignasse by Henri-Edmond Cross. He largely neglected the Fauves, except for a few Paris scenes by Albert Marquet and one lively painting by André Derain, Bougival, that Senn's father-in-law called the "most daft and most ugly" thing the younger man had ever bought. As for Henri Matisse, there are only two of his pieces in the show. One is an early work, Still...
...firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain at $320 each) sits next to an enormous 1850s mahogany display case ($13,200) that originally held flora specimens at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. A regularly updated list of antiques can be found at www.lassco.co.uk, or call (44-20) 7749 9944. Manager Anthony Reeve hasn't sold any of London's bridges yet, but it can only be a matter of time...
...Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” a play by multi-talented actor Steve Martin (“Father of the Bride”), posits a strange, fictional meeting as the set up for its drama: Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein come together in 1904, when both are young and neither is famous...
Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, which was famous for hosting Albert Einstein, but he still faced the wrath of his enemies. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover urged his agents to dig up anything incriminating, and they returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father...
...recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler propaganda festival, at which top Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because Conant’s guest list included Nazis. Conant’s well-known reluctance to offer prominent refugee Jewish scholars faculty positions was motivated by his own anti-Semitism, expressed in correspondences. Grynbaum ignores these cases of Harvard’s indifference to Jewish...