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...true that, over the past few years, for those who do not speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been...
...creators and intellectuals did indeed lose some ground in the U.S. after the war. But we are now seeing their ? return, and that of French galleries, onto the American scene. From translations of Bernard-Henri Lévy's books to artist Daniel Buren's installations at the Guggenheim, to the French presence at Art Basel Miami Beach, the news is very positive...
...artist could decline the invitation. Gergiev and hundreds of singers and musicians (and two horses) were flown in from the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. And on Christmas night, they presented Alexander Borodin's classic opera Prince Igor on a world-class stage - alas, to an audience that paid little attention...
...lineage back to Attila the Hun and was granted what was originally a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha.) estate by King Charles II as thanks for helping to keep Oliver Cromwell at bay. Sir John Leslie built the castle itself in 1870, and invited all his pre-Raphaelite artist friends - including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin and Frederic Leighton - to stay...
...least the Israeli security wall is attracting a new kind of tourist, the graffiti guerrilla. The phantom British artist Banksy recently led a posse of foreign artists to the wall. He spray-painted a picture of a peace dove in a flak jacket that was captured in a sniper's crosshairs. And on the side of a house, he drew a little girl in a pink dress frisking an Israeli soldier. At times, the graffiti lifts my spirit. Other times, when I'm angry after being delayed at the checkpoint, I think that art alone can't bring down that...