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...voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932), pictured - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled him, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from about $250 to $100,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com
...images of the city after dark to be the top prizes. Toying with deep blacks and light, Brassaï pictured extraordinary cityscapes. A voyeur, he captured lovers - like those in Couple at the Four Seasons Dance Hall, Rue de Lappe (circa 1932) - prostitutes and brothels, some "like a chapel lit up for midnight mass." About 190 drawings of a "born draftsman," as Pablo Picasso labeled the artist in 1939, will also be on offer, alongside a dozen of Brassaï's sculptures; prices range from €200-80,000. Not bad for the night shift. www.brassai-succession-millon.com
...senior in Charlotte, N.C., who cringes as he notes how, when history projects were announced at his high school, there was a literal footrace to the library to be the first to get the key books. He won a Morehead scholarship to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a full ride offered to the very top students. It was not only the money but also the feel of the place that drew him. "The Ivy Leagues just seemed like a very intense four years where I'd get more of the same that I've been through here...
...They separate for ten months at a time and then meet again and so they have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school...
...professionals have known anecdotally: that New Orleans may be in the midst of a serious breakdown, both among residents and the health care system needed to treat them. Barbee and his co-authors - psychiatrists Mark Townsend, also of LSUHSC, and Richard Weisler, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - pull together data that, collectively, provide a bleak snapshot of the city?s mental health condition as it approaches the storm's one-year anniversary...