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According to Institute officials at the time, the conference was held in Amsterdam because of "continuing uncertainty" over U.S. policy towards those infected with...
...artists drop through the cracks, and for a long time, it looked as though Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was one of them. His retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Arts, curated by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone (until mid-February, then at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam), is the first deep look at Sickert the British have had in almost 30 years. In America, he is virtually unknown. No museum has ever acknowledged him, and if you dip for his work into the big public collections, let alone the private ones, you will come up empty. Ditto...
Baez's musical style has drifted closer to pop. The upbeat rhythm of "Play Me Backwards," a song about child abuse, characterizes her move towards greater melody and rhythm. Another song from Play Me Backwards, "Amsterdam," demonstrated a gentle, caressing melody rarely heard before in her music...
...displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar in both...
...Abrams' comprehensive collection of Dutch drawings is a true asset to the art world--this exhibit traveled to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam before it came to the U.S. The works in "Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings" create a sense of intimacy that makes this exhibit a true delight...