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Take the paintings of one popular artist (preferably, but not necessarily, Pablo Picasso). Juxtapose them with the works of another genius. Compare, contrast and voilà: You have a blockbuster exhibition guaranteed to bring in the crowds. The phenomenal success of the three-city "Matisse Picasso" show in 2002-03 helped inspire the thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others...
...single, irrefutable reason the pairing works: Francis Bacon spent his entire career aspiring to Picassohood. In fact, Bacon maintained that his first encounter with the Spaniard's work, the 1927 show "A Hundred Drawings by Picasso" at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery in Paris, made him want to be an artist. "Why don't I try it?" the Ireland-born, England-raised drifter asked himself; within months...
...French cosmetic giant's new CEO-designate. The head of U.S. operations for L'Oréal since 2001, he will take over next year for Lindsay Owen-Jones, who stays on as chairman. A graduate of the Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Agon will need the skill of a makeup artist to keep L'Oréal looking as good as it has under Owen-Jones, who steered the $19 billion company through two decades of annualized double-digit profit gains. On Agon's to-do list: promoting L'Oréal's new antiaging skin-care line for men. --By Dody Tsiantar
...that sprawls below is a violent, festering jungle of corruption: "Nothing gets built in Gotham without a kickback," Kelly tells us. Briody is haunted by his past as a street fighter for the I.R.A., and he gets in even more trouble for hooking up with Grace, a beautiful bohemian artist who happens to be the kept woman of Johnny Farrell, a top-level Tammany Hall fixer, who in turn is worried about the rising power of the Italian gangsters, whose gift for sick violence freaks out even hardened...
...artist, Lauren Greenfield ’87, takes bold color photos that capture the essences of contemporary culture. Composed of both candid and posed portraits of women, the show also presents the written reflections of some of the subjects, juxtaposing their images with complementary musings on beauty, sexuality, and growing up. The texts and photographs, both part of Greenfield’s book of the same title, play off one another to create a powerful message on what it means to be a woman today...