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...that both artists specialized in distorted images, anthropomorphic monsters and screaming faces, the Rosenberg drawings are surprisingly mild. In fact, they are lyrical studies for Picasso's neoclassical works that were criticized at the time as a betrayal of the revolutionary spirit behind his Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 20 years before...
...than Chirac's generation. "The ump is no longer a Gaullist party," says Reynié. "The younger generation has grown up amid the crisis of the French model, and they're not as attached to the state." Florian Guingrich, 22, head of the ump youth group in Avignon, complains about a party that talks but doesn't listen, that wants to decentralize France but is itself centralized. "We can't win if the party's organized from the top down," he says. "That's why the referendum on the constitution is key: you can't make Europe unless the people...
...Louvre, there's a medieval doubleheader: First, French Primitives, Discoveries and Rediscoveries (until May 17), and then the big Paris 1400 show (March 26-July 12). "French Primitives," the centennial of a groundbreaking 1904 exhibit, provides a minisurvey of 58 exemplary 15th century works including the renowned Avignon Pietà, a large, luminous painting of the dead Christ awkwardly laid across his mother's knees, with John the Baptist, in an unusual gesture, removing his crown of thorns. In the terrific little show's biggest coup, the separate and fragile panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from...
...same, it was in Tahiti that Gauguin would make the work that opened the way for a later generation of artists to draw connections between "primitive" culture and the most advanced artistic practices. Picasso's road to the radical distortions of Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon was illuminated by the fires of Gauguin's Tahitian nudes. And for that matter, what is the work of Matthew Barney--all those willfully obscure films drawn from a personal cosmology--if not an update of Gauguin's enigmatic myths...
...invade Iraq, which is what you would expect from your oldest friend. But Bush wouldn't listen. This is a very sad time for those who used to look to America as the beacon of freedom and respect for human values in a troubled world. Luc Serard Avignon, France...