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...protests. Individually these sorts of changes don't amount to much, but collectively they make people nervous that their national cultures will disappear. Václav Klaus, a former Czech Prime Minister and a vocal euroskeptic, says, "We mustn't allow ourselves to dissolve in Europe like a sugar cube in a cup of tea." Another unhappy realization beginning to dawn on the applicants is that the fraternity they're joining is going to haze them. Full agricultural subsidies won't be available for at least seven years - otherwise France and Germany would have vetoed enlargement to protect their farmers...
...Torah narrative but with significant changes and additions. The Koran portrays Abraham as the first man to make full surrender to Allah. Each of the five repetitions of daily prayer ends with a reference to him. The holy book recounts Abraham's building of the Ka'aba, the black cube that is Mecca's central shrine. Several of the rituals performed in that city by pilgrims making the hajj recall episodes from his history. Those who cannot journey still join in celebrating the Festival of Sacrifice, in which a lamb or goat is offered up to commemorate the same near...
...Cloud” (2001) by Bill Wheelock was by far the most impressive work in the show. It is comprised of strings of monofilament, and sections are painted red so that there seems to be a hazy, red sphere floating within a Plexiglas cube when seen from a distance. The unimaginable use of space, color, and medium in this work reflects the genius Wheelock makes us of in most of his works. However, his use of common materials—lines of texts in a jar or huge cubes of aluminum—and his toying with spatial perception seem...
...Millinery Shop” (1882-86) are both well-known portraits of materialism. Vincent van Gogh’s “Roses” (1890), painted in the last year of his life while in a mental asylum, introduces thick black outlines and cube-shaped petals into the composition of a vase of wilting roses. Paul Cézanne’s “The Kitchen Table” (1888-90) is a revolutionary still life because Cézanne shows that he has set up the table laden with fruit, jugs and a basket in his studio...
...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...