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...most alive." And best illuminating it called for a camera. The work of Brassaï, as Halász became in 1932 (meaning "from Brassó," his native village), made him one of the most admired and enduring photographers of the last century. And when 750 of the artist's works are auctioned at Drouot Montaigne in Paris Oct. 2-3 - two-thirds of them photographs - expect his images of the city after dark to be the top prizes. Toying with deep blacks and light, Brassaï pictured extraordinary cityscapes. A voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple...
...very hard to start new relationships. I loved him, and I didn't want to allow intimacy with another man. But I was fortunate that when I met my current husband in December 2003, we weren't in the same city. Our relationship started with conversation. He is an artist, and I had commissioned him to do a piece for the law firm that had handled my 9/11 affairs pro bono. He needed to talk to me about my experience in order to come up with a vision for that painting. He had to talk to me about 9/11, what...
...ability that is incredibly accomplished, far beyond their years." They tend to be in chess, music and math, more in quantitative fields and less in qualitative disciplines, where "kids are gifted in ways that are hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step down from prodigyhood, tend...
...life. It is common to hear an Egyptian woman, quarrelling with her husband, shout in his face, "You think you're Si Sayed?"?a reference to the tyrannical husband in Mahfouz's landmark Cairo Trilogy. He laid the foundations of the modern Arab novel and proved that a great artist?he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988?must also be a great human being. Thousands of Cairo's inhabitants saw Mahfouz during his long daily wanderings on foot and were captivated by his affectionate and simple way of talking with them about their problems and sorrows. Mahfouz lived...
RECOVERED. The Scream (pictured) and Madonna, two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004; in Oslo. Three men were given jail sentences in May for their roles in the daring daytime theft, but two others involved are still at large. Police have not released details of the paintings' return; museum experts who authenticated the works said they were scarcely damaged...