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...know I'm seen as some kind of avant-garde fantasy," says Geldzahler. Indeed, he relishes the role. He collects art deco objects as well as modern paintings, secretly yearns to go to Hollywood. Born in 1935 in Antwerp to a family of diamond merchants, he came...
Peter Paul Rubens once met a Negro on the docks of Antwerp, or perhaps at a party, and asked the man to pose. 'Probably he gave no more than a morning to the multiple study that now hangs at the Brussels Royal Musum of Fine Arts. This portrait bulges with brilliance, makes room for itself; yet it is not monumental in feeling but intimate. Rubens spins his subject swiftly, eagerly, to see and show the same thing from four view points all at once. Who was the model? No one knows his name. Rubens presumably painted...
...Clover. To support this conclusion, she darts around history hunting for examples like a bee in a clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns...
...Antwerp, Belgium...
Died. Eugene Vidal, 73, pioneer promoter of civil aviation and father of Author Gore Vidal; in Los Angeles, Calif. Vidal starred in football at West Point and competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920. He later taught aviation and coached football at the academy, resigned his commission in 1926 to become assistant general manager of Transcontinental Air Transport (now TWA). From 1933 to 1937 he was Director of Air Commerce in Washington, where he organized and expanded the Government's civil aeronautics program. Later he served as a director of Northeast Airlines and as aviation...