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...Institute has prepared a nearly full-scale reproduction that gives an idea of how the painting looked before the colors faded. Predictably, there was a radiance in some passages that?s lost to us now, but what?s interesting is how little the picture has been diminished by the decay of mere pigment. The fascination of La Grande Jatte is not just a matter of color and light. It lies in Seurat?s endlessly absorbing and ambiguous notion - to show modern men and women bearing the signs of their daily life into eternity, so that even their pettiest, most comical...
What do Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mick Jagger and Otto von Bismarck have in common? They've all dined at Borchardt's, a Berlin classic situated between Gendarmenmarkt and the Brandenburg Gate. Opened in October 1853, the fashionable restaurant was nearly destroyed in World War II, then left to decay during the reign of East Germany's communist government. But under new management, Borchardt's gained a new lease on life after the Wall fell, and it's now a magnet for Berlin's political and social ?lite...
Visiting his ancestral homeland in February, Glaeser told Glasgow officials that their city is teetering on a “knife edge.” He said Glasgow could follow Boston’s model of economic growth—or a Baltimore-style path of urban decay...
...achieve. For millennia, cultures have protected marriage because they recognized the stability that was afforded by the healthy sexual union of a man and woman. When sex is tragically separated from the union of marriage, however, it is empirically a source of destruction, corruption and decay. Nor is this an accident, for it is the greatest good which can be the most catastrophically corrupted...
...with Gasoline Rainbow, a tale of fast-living and the Lower East Side. WIth an insight into the lives of the degenerate classes, Gasoline Rainbow follows anti-lovers Christine and Gabe in a journey through “squatters, ketamine…kidnapping, credit card fraud, urban decay and subversion.” The first rule of Gasoline Rainbow is….Tickets $2. Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Saturday May 1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Adams House Kronauer Space...