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...Moderne," he recalls, "and I just fell in love with art." After Paris they settled in Sydney, where Kaldor would eventually take over the family textile business. But it was among the international avant-garde that he felt most at home. In 1969, Kaldor invited then-unknown conceptualists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Australia, where they veiled 2.4 km of cliff just south of Sydney in 93,000 sq. m of synthetic cloth, the first of their public "wrappings." And in a dozen commissions since, Kaldor has not only brought a who's who of contemporary art to Australia, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Impresario of the New | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...half in color), essays by art historians chart the changes in sculpture from traditional men on horseback to imposing abstractions that are set against desolate landscapes or take up acres and even miles. Examples include Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah and Christo's 24˝-mile-long nylon Running Fence in California. These and more familiar pieces by Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder are investigated with intellectual rigor and inviting illustrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasures for the Holidays | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...maine [sic] end of [a student’s] life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life.” Even the school’s motto, “Veritas,” used to be “Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia”—“Truth for Christ and Church...

Author: By Yifei Chen | Title: A Misguided Crusade | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...logo and the ostensibly eternal distillation of its identity—has undergone significant change since the University’s birth back in 1636. Back then, it wasn’t just about “Veritas.” It was “Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia;” not just Truth, but Truth for Christ and Church.What exactly happened to “Church”? And where did Christ go? It used to be that Harvard had only one business—training young men for deployment into the ministry. And it wasn?...

Author: By Anna K. Kendrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard’s Secularization | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...planning for the war in Iraq was poor and short-term. The U.S. may have won some games in Iraq, but it has definitely lost the championship. Yet it dares to speak of win-win withdrawal scenarios. Christo Christopoulos Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

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