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Back in France after 1824, Ingres created a gallery of the rich and the powerful (bankers, royalty, a newspaper owner, beautiful femmes du monde) that seems to define the high society of its day as fully as Felix Nadar's photographs recorded the artistic elites of the 1850s and '60s. Ingres loved doing portraits--and hated it. It was both hackwork and the vehicle of some of his highest instincts as an artist. It drove him crazy: "I don't know how to draw anymore," this greatest of 19th century draftsmen moaned to a friend. "I don't know anything...
...FELIX NUSSBAUM BUILDING, OSNABRUCK, GERMANY This gallery, housing works of an artist who died in Auschwitz, is the first architectural theorist Daniel Libeskind, 52, has finished. Libeskind's ideas on the presence of absence--how to represent something that isn't there--and his fascination with layers and the fractured, broken and diagonal line make for some fabulously strange exhibition spaces (not to mention dangerous windows...
Alan M. Dershowitz is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School...
...funny thing is, these words were delivered decades ago. Felix Frankfurter, one of the great legal scholars of the twentieth century, was responding to increased enrollments, increased materialism and what he perceived to be decreased civility among his students in 1930. The more times change, the more they stay the same...
...have some fries with this one? The gratuitous sequel introduces a new and unfortunate cinema franchise: McNeil Simon's. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon '47 reprise their classic roles as messy Oscar Madison and natty Felix Ungar in the sequel to Simon's comedy classic, but the result is as flat as a Quarter Pounder without the cheese. The excuse for a plot, the erstwhile roommates' road trip through California en route to their children's wedding, can't support the lack of the genuine humor that characterized the original. And the stale performances make this movie about as palatable...