Word: elegante
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Today Davidovich, 56, is recognized in her adopted country as a leading international pianist, acclaimed for her fluent, elegant interpretations of Schumann and Chopin. Unlike those Soviet emigres who left their homeland seeking greater personal freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be...
The old Nazi's quiet demise was in keeping with the way he had spent his final years. Accompanied by photographs showing a distinguished-looki ng old man at once elegant and elegiac, the Bunte story presented the image of a melancholy but unrepentant old man living out his last...
The Paris of Kertesz's early career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy...
Little more than a decade ago, neon was considered a visual vagrant, synonymous with tacky retailing and seamy night life. Now it is going through an efflorescence. Boutiques and malls throughout the U.S. are aglow with it. In the hands of architects, sculptors and even film directors, it is being...
The demand is so great that the number of neon workshops in the nation has risen from fewer than 500 ten years ago to more than 1,000 (although that is still below the pre-World War II total of 1,500). The upswing is more than fashionable nostalgia. "This...