Word: eclecticism
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When it was at the Tate Gallery in London a few months ago, R.B. Kitaj's retrospective show received a drubbing from English critics such as few artists ever have to endure in a lifetime. Indeed, the reviews were so bilious that this critic found himself wondering whether an artist...
A table is also a good place from which to take in the eclectic decorations that the store has gathered since its establishment in 1883. the portraits of Levitt and Pierce, hung like altar pieces, stare back at you from the opposite wall. Replete with 19th century Harvard baseball team...
Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza. But he was perhaps most himself when fabricating his own unorthodox verse forms. He was a born matchmaker, tirelessly contriving a happy marriage of form...
MARRIED. BENZION MEISLES, 19, grandson of the head of the New York-based Bobover Hasidic Jews, and HAIYA ERENTSER, 17, granddaughter of the leader of Israel's influential Vishnitz group; in Bnei Brak, Israel. Many of the 20,000 guests had to watch the union of two of the largest...
PARIS. A spectacular showcase concert hall has opened at the Cite de la Musique, the shell-shaped rosy white complex of institutions and advanced-research facilities devoted to musical study and performance. The striking auditorium in the Parc de la Villette was built in modular fashion by French architect Christian...