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...Ollie's Bar in Antwerp, the big attraction is dancing to soul music and ogling the American athletes who gather there after a game. The bar is owned by Oliver Howell, 28, from Indianapolis, the high-scoring forward for the Antwerp Basketball Club. In Belgium, says Howell, where rich backers send scouts to the U.S. to recruit players, the arrival of the Americans has improved not only basketball but, in his case, the bustling bar business as well...
Should Hitler have aimed for Antwerp, as he did, in a grandiose dream of rolling back the Allies into the sea ("another Dunkirk")? Answer: probably not. A limited offensive, as his generals advised, would have lessened the risks, though they soberly gave themselves only a one-in-ten chance...
What emerges from this definitive show is that Jordaens was not just a poor man's Rubens-who in that day was the acknowledged titan who bestrode not only the narrow world of Antwerp but all the courts of Europe. Certainly many of Jordaens' paintings echo his master, just as do some of Van Dyck's, Rubens' other (and younger) disciple. Van Dyck went to the British court to make a successful career as perhaps the sleekest portraitist of all time. Jordaens stayed in Antwerp...
...atelier that employed dozens of apprentices to help execute the large decorative panels that were the order of the day. Even major painters often helped each other on big commissions. Van Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, the Prado, and Rumania's Brukenthal Museum. Even Leningrad's Hermitage contributed...
...Antwerp, Belgium...