Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fully restored and authenticated by experts at the respected Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. One of the great impressionist's Gare St. Lazare paintings, it was dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes sunbathing, then faked in Monet's scene, "aged" it in front of a gas stove and out in the sun, and finally painted the nudes back on top. Said Kiesel: "We wanted to protest against the middle-class stock...
...problem is not mismanagement but the fact that the center did not develop quite in the way its founders had in mind. The great artistic companies it houses-the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet-are independent operations that have a cooperative tenant-landlord relationship with the center itself. On its own, the center has sponsored only the repertory theater-an esthetic as well as a financial disaster during most of its history-educational programs and special events such as the summer festivals, which have never shown a profit. Because of the vast fund-raising...
This is the peculiar magic of the strange plaster figures of Sculptor George Segal. In a new show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, he demonstrates that at 44, he has survived his early classification as a pop artist to become a major, if idiosyncratic sculptor subject to no label whatever...
...Sugar Plum, he has written about a meeting between a coed artist and the boy who had run over and killed her finance with his car. The whole thing is ludicrous in a Murray Schisgal sort of way; no sooner does the girl arrive, indignant over the death of the man she loved, than she sets out to make it with the killer...
...unfailing precision of its forms, both large and small. Michelangelo has caused each painted figure to exist in full, down to the subtlest wrinkle of a foot sole or the snug arc of a toenail. These refinements, needless to say, are quite invisible from down below. Why did the artist bother? In one of his sonnets, he exclaims, 'My soul can find no stair on which to climb to heaven, unless it be earth's loveliness...