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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preferred his monumental paintings to be hung in monumental spaces. The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. The Hotel Sale, built in 1656, was chosen. Located in the Marais district, the museum is a short walk from the Pompidou Center, whose exterior is closer to an oil refinery than a museum of modern art. Conversion of the dilapidated Sale began in 1980 and was completed only this summer, at a cost of nearly $10 million. Great care was taken to preserve the original palatial sand-colored structure and to hide, as well as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum for Picasso's Picassos | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...trees, the MDC at one time tried to uproot all the sycamores lining my lovely banks to construct an underpass for Memorial Dr. Which would you prefer to see? In deference to the MDC, they have started planting Japanese cherry trees closer to the Basin, but why can't they haul some of those undeveloped fruit stands up this...

Author: By T. CHARLES River, | Title: Weeping River | 10/3/1985 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Special Duty | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Ball says he hopes to see students start to take a closer look at racism close to home as they continue to examine the white minority South Africa regime...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Mainstream or Bust | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...year ago, a white neighborhood had been penetrated by the violence, which until then had been largely confined to nonwhite townships. To date, some 675 South Africans have been killed in a year of bloodshed. Of those, only four have been whites. But the fire is getting closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Reagan's Abrupt Reversal | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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