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Angelic Host. Quiet and intense, Wieland differs from his tempestuous grandfather in temperament, but not in artistic outlook. Both stagecraft innovators in their day, Richard liked his opera gorgeously colored and realistically detailed; Wieland likes to keep his decor schematic and sparse, consisting more of lines and lights than of...
A fair sample was the show's opening last fortnight in Madrid's newly founded Museo de Arte Contemporaneo. On hand to do the honors was U.S. Ambassador John Davis Lodge, who tried his best to make polite noises as he was led from one sprawling canvas to...
Empty or Vital? The seekers merged as a group in 1948, when they formed "The Club" for artists only, met in a loft in Greenwich Village, debated: "What is abstract art in the good sense?'' "How do you know when a work is finished?" "Why put a title...
In his Déjeuner sur I'Herbe, Monet, then 25, began his manifesto, one of the greatest lost paintings of modern art. Gigantic in scale, the canvas measured 15 ft. by 19 ft., was referred to by one friend as "this huge sandwich which costs the earth." In...
Nelson was born in 1758, at a time when Dr. Samuel Johnson could see little difference between life at sea and life in prison, except that at sea there was the added hazard of drowning. Yet Nelson, a parson's sickly son, lived to cast an aura of gaiety...