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...DIED, GORDON ONSLOW FORD, 90, last surviving member of the Surrealist school of painters; in Inverness, California. The British-born painter studied in Paris during the 1930s, where he met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who introduced him to the Surrealist group lead by André Breton...
...Gordon ’04-’05, meditation was what first appealed to him about Buddhism. It eventually led him to take time off from school. He is now living with Buddhist monks at the Gampo Abbey, a religious community in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Gordon had been moderately interested in Buddhism since high school, when he read a book on Zen, but he did not seriously become involved until his junior year of college. “I just gave it a shot,” Gordon says in a phone...
Celtic studies is an interdisciplinary field which includes the study of the six existing Celtic languages—Cornish, Manx, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh—along with the traditional and modern literature, mythology, history, law, folklore and religious tradition of the Celtic countries...
...than-life figure who is feared, admired and criticized in equal measure. He is one of the 10 richest people in France, whose wealth at its peak in 2000 was estimated by Forbes at $7.8 billion. (Forbes today thinks he's worth $5 billion less than that). A wily Breton who built his business empire from humble beginnings in the timber industry, Pinault has had numerous scrapes over the years with competitors, shareholders, French tax authorities and regulators in California, who are currently pursuing a $1 billion lawsuit against him. And there are several signs that suggest Pinault may have...
...Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, and later studied with Cubist painter André Lhote, honing his geometrically precise eye for composition at the Louvre. By the 1920s, he was hanging out in Montmartre cafés with André Breton and the Surrealists. Breton, he says, "intimidated me. I was very much younger, and he was the Pope." But he was fascinated by Surrealist theories of automatic drawing and writing; of the importance of chance encounters and intuition; and above all, of rebellion. (He still claims to be an "anarchist...