Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposite. The blaze destroyed the mansard roof and cupola of the Louisiana State Museum, as the building is officially known, and its third floor. Fire fighters went inside while the roof was still burning to rescue portraits and historical artifacts. But historical furniture and some works of art were ruined. The Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was completed in 1803, is regarded as one of America's most treasured landmarks. Fortunately, thanks to the firemen's quick reflexes, many irreplaceable objects survived, including a bronze death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte...
...wanted at that time was me in London, a security scandal and a sensational trial." He even retained the honor he had been awarded in 1946 -- Order of the British Empire -- for two years after fleeing to Moscow, and his collaborator Anthony Blunt remained the Queen's adviser on art for more than a decade after admitting to treason...
Khoshbin, who has taught painting, drawing, and calligraphy at Currier House in addition to his seminar, says his course attempted to integrate art and science by studying the links between the brain and creativity. His course on disorders of the brain is designed to give all students a good conceptual background in both arts and sciences, as is the Core, he says...
...ART: Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Billy Powers, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...confluence of jazz and classical music long thought dried up. In works like Black, Brown and Beige, Duke Ellington bravely but cautiously ventured across the border that separates the big band from the orchestra; playing with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist John Lewis pushed out the frontiers of his art while still remaining within its bounds. Now Davis, the New Jersey-born, Yale- educated son of a college professor, has gone a step further. Bright, articulate and accomplished, he is an important young American composer who happens to be -- a jazzman...