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...collection, which includes paintings by abstract artists John Miro and Fernand Leger, is now on partial exhibit at the Fogg. Three especially noted works now hand in the Fogg courtyard in Sert's memory...
...clergy in radical politics is not new. Because of their close contact with the common people, priests often find themselves obliged to act in support of the peasant's case. It must not be forgotten that the first armed rebellion against Spain, in 1810, started in a church courtyard in Dolores, Mexico. The leader was Father Miguel Hidalgo, who died before a royal firing squad. The insurrection ultimately succeeded when Mexico won its independence from Spain...
...tout Southern California had been sprucing up for weeks. Sunday morning the royals went to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Diego. "We've completely redone the courtyard," said the Rev. James Carroll, "even though they'll just see it for a moment." Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions. At Neiman-Marcus, there was a run on $150 over-the-elbow white kid gloves...
...which everyone would simultaneously pluck, pound, tingle and bow musical instruments as church bells rang and neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump of disco rhythms. A troupe from the Comédie Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place...
...show tries to give an overview of papal commissioning and collecting. The papacy is, in fact, the world's oldest continuous art collector, and the history of its museums goes back to 1503, when Julius II set up a courtyard for connoisseurs, the Belvedere, stocked with a collection of antique statuary. Above its entrance was engraved a Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts." Turnstile tallies were not a concern of Renaissance Popes. In the past 1,500 years or so, the Vatican has amassed vast amounts of art in a way that...