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Kyoji Takubo gazes at the spectacular screen paintings surrounding him?201 floral studies on a field of luminous gold?and declares that this was the place where he decided to become an artist. Growing up in Kotohira, a backwater town on Shikoku island in southern Japan, he rarely gave any thought to art. But one of his best friends was the son of the head priest of Kotohira-gu, commonly called Konpira, an important Shinto shrine that is the town's great pride and that is said to date back more than 2,000 years. So Takubo spent...
...influence of Okyo's work can be seen in a series of rooms commissioned 80 years later and painted by late-Edo master Gantai in the 1840s. His screens, like Okyo's, each have its own theme; they are filled with dazzling gold reeds, rushes, trees and butterflies. But by this time, figurative depiction had become so sophisticated that the butterflies look real, as if they are ready to fly off the screen...
...CRANZ-BORCHERS, 90, Germany 's most decorated female skier; in Germany. Winner of 12 world and two Olympic titles, Cranz was best known for her victory in the 1936 Olympic Alpine combined skiing event, where, after falling in the downhill, she came back in the slalom to take the gold medal. DIED. W. DORWIN TEAGUE, 94, prolific industrial designer who invented the mimeograph machine and the first fully reclining dentist chair, as well as improved versions of everything from cash registers to can openers; in Carbondale, Illinois...
...coratifs et Industriels Moderne, it was basically a marketing tool - a way to reinvigorate the world of French luxury goods. It transcended the role, of course, and luxury purveyors are again looking back to the jazz age for inspiration. Bottega Veneta designer Thomas Maier pays homage to the gold-leaf look with his latest collection of shoes (right). And at Fendi, Deco shapes grace the Vanity handbag (left). In October, Cartier will bring "Cartier Design Viewed by Ettore Sottsass" - an exhibit of mostly Art Deco jewelry - to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts...
During his famous Class Day speech in 2000, Conan O’Brien ’85 sarcastically described himself as “the brightest star in the Late Night firmament.” This past week, NBC spun sarcastic flax into gold...