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When Mullah Mohammed Omar announced on Feb. 26 that the big Buddhas were to be destroyed, Luis Monreal had a bright idea. Archaeologist, art historian and director of Fundació la Caixa , the cultural foundation in Barcelona sponsored by the Catalan savings bank of that name, Monreal decided to display a side of Afghanistan little known in Europe. In six months, a quarter of the time it normally takes to plan and mount an international exhibition, the Caixa Foundation, in tandem with the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, brought together 230 pieces from U.S. and European museums...
...view in Barcelona that will run through July 30 and then move to the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna in the fall. "Postwar Europe 1945-1965: Arts After the Deluge" has been organized by Thomas Messer, the former director of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for La Caixa, Spain's leading private cultural foundation. It is a big affair-some 540 paintings, sculptures, photographs and architectural samples-and it leaves room for much wrangling about choices. (No Balthus? Why nothing by Jean Halion...
...number and variety of instruments Byrne employs to stretch these songs to their limits is staggering. In addition to the expected bass, keyboards, electric guitar and saxophone, instruments like the batteria, conga, campanita, guira, huataca, bongo, sencerro, coa, timbal, caixa, surdo, pandiero, mandolin and even two types of batas (iya and itotele) are used. Needless to say, it is clear that Byrne has spent time and research finding the right New World instruments to perfect Rei Momo's South American flavor. His use of Portuguese and Spanish lyrics in such cuts as "Make Believe Mambo" and "The call...
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