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...have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise later used it in his International Dull Day proclamation last Oct. 16.) That was the kind of folderol that used to fill the air of the Cafe Babar...
...Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...
...also full of harmless hangers-on, who argue for hours about the genius of some current exhibit, or the outrage of a brash new painter. But to learn anything about art at the Grossenvahn, you should be quiet and listen to the people of actual achievement who frequent the cafe. They will be your best teachers in Munich because there are no summer courses or supervised museum programs offered anywhere...
Thus Van Gogh's painting of the café terrace on the Place du Forum in Aries (1888), with its harsh contrasting color -deep nocturnal blue against yellow lamplight under the awning, streaks of orange opposing the absinthe green of the cafe tabletops-was both a direct act of natural vision and a tribute to Louis Anquetin's Avenue de Clichy: Five O'clock in the Evening, 1887. Anquetin, drawing on childhood memories of seeing his parental garden through stained-glass lozenges in the front door, had suffused his view of a Paris street in a deep...
...Church St. cafe, which has provided free music and snacks for 14 years, has found four people to form the new team of managers, replacing Dean Spencer '78, a third-year law student, who is leaving to write his thesis, and Lauren Walker...