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These are the pictures that open the Chicago show, curated expertly by Stephanie D'Alessandro of the Art Institute and John Elderfield of MOMA. They represent a final prelude to the leap Matisse would make around 1913 into radical distortion and near abstraction. Much of that work he would do in the shadow of World War I. Rejected for service - he was 44 when the war began - he went on working in a Paris studio, while outside his door Europe hammered itself to pieces. Not long after, his hometown in northern France was occupied by German troops, his mother left...
...think the review process is more superficial somehow because there is less space,” said Alessandro Doria, an associate professor of epidemiology who conducts research at the Harvard-affiliate Joslin Diabetes Center. “Perhaps the application will be more direct, but some of the reasoning might be lost...
David F. D’Alessandro, the primary author of the report and the former chairman of John Hancock Financial Services, said during a press conference Wednesday that he would personally avoid riding certain portions of the Red Line...
...plans to address the safety issues raised by the report, noting that the governor has asked Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Jeffrey B. Mullan to “re-prioritize projects based on safety concerns.” Patrick has also asked D’Alessandro to review the plan that the MBTA and the Department of Transportation devise to remedy the T’s problems...
...It’s story telling,” he said. “It’s a kind of Odyssey.” It fulfills “the primal aspect of people—everybody just likes telling stories.” Alessandro expressed a similar sentiment. “It is always new, challenging,” he says. “Humanity has had oral tradition forever. This is but one manifestation of that.” And after all, “that’s what it’s about...