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Without notice, without segue, Heaney then swerved rather powerfully towards a justification of poetry. Having grown and matured against the background of shootings, bombings and strikes in northern Ireland, Heaney is no stranger to political conflict and the demands of civic responsibility. Heaney admits that in the face of such peril, poetry seems like “arbitrary, pleasure-seeking shape-making.” And it is. What seemed to baffle the audience was that this doesn’t trouble...
...theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over pale blue, segmented by a vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly modulated, so that details such as the rough canvas grain and the stripe's distressed paint become the story. The exhibition recreates Newman's first solo show, in 1950, in the Betty Parsons Gallery. He had helped Parsons put on shows of Native American and contemporary...
...Because of post-9/11 security measures, he was stuck at home in Tehran. Asked about the matter, Kiarostami gives a modest shrug of resignation. "Perhaps you should write a piece on the role of terrorists in filmmaking," he says. New U.S. immigration rules require a 90-day background check on some visa applicants, making it especially difficult for men from Muslim countries to obtain entry permits. When Kiarostami - whose 1997 Taste of Cherry won the best picture award at Cannes - submitted his visa request at the U.S. embassy in Paris, he learned he would not be granted one before...
...embassy denied his visa because, after Sept. 11, Iran was placed on a list of sensitive countries whose citizens are subject to background checks that require about three months to complete...
Though Kiarostami knew the background checks could not be completed in time for the debut, he had assumed that because he frequently travels to the U.S., there would be no problem with getting his visa in time, said Graham Leggat, communications director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which runs the film festival...