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...contemporary concepts of the artist as odd man out. The whirlwind of new exhibits kicked off with Joan Miró (1917-1934), The Birth of the World, which runs until June 28 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, offering almost 240 paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and constructions from the Catalan artist's early years, as he constantly experimented with themes, technique, style and color. The show's title is borrowed from a 1925 painting; the world being born was Miró's own, a unique galaxy of pictorial enchantment residing on the border between surrealism and abstraction. The show traces...
...missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive devices planted near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad and close to the offices of a Kurdish political party were disarmed by U.S. troops. - By Adam Smith Holding the Cards SPAIN The pro-independence Catalan Republican Left party nearly doubled its representation in the Catalan assembly, winning 23 of 135 seats in regional elections. The CRL now holds the balance...
...MATURIN. Oh, dear. The film has him as nothing more than a doctor and naturalist who happens to be Aubrey's best friend. In fact, he was proudly Irish (with a touch of Catalan), a spy for the British, not handsome and utterly incapable of doing anything shipshape...
Well-connected in Catalan intellectual circles, Sert’s first major commission was Spain’s pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. “As the product of a nation at war with itself it is a miracle,” the Carpenter Center display quotes one publication as saying at the time of the building’s inauguration. As a piece of architecture, it was a mild success. At the end of the Exposition, Sert’s design would largely go forgotten, its fame overshadowed by the mural it housed?...
...peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling party called for greater independence for the autonomous region. Artur Mas of the Catalan-nationalist Convergence and Union coalition called for a new autonomy statute that would give Catalonia separate representation in the E.U. and other international bodies, and the final say on its public finances. In exchange, Mas offered to support the governing Popular Party in Madrid. The demands were immediately rejected...