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...Majerus' untitled (violet) (1997), in which a purple rectangle hovers at the top of the canvas dripping color like a pair of wet blue jeans, has a classic simplicity that suggests Mark Rothko or even Henri Matisse. For years, critics have been mentioning Majerus in the same sentence as contemporary giants like Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol - if only because he stole shamelessly from them. Majerus "quotes, spits out and recycles modernism," enthuses Mudam director Marie-Claude Beaud. "His painting seems to be cultivated, sensitive and trashy all at the same time...
...beijing.raffles.com. When Raffles Hotels & Resorts-owner of Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel-took over the management reins last year, it led a no-expense-spared effort to restore the sort of style the hotel enjoyed in the days when the likes of George Bernard Shaw, Sun Yat-sen and Henri Cartier-Bresson graced its rooms (in fact, nine Personality Suites are named after famous former guests...
...offspring of a well-off family in Lyons, Henri Grou?s was inspired by St. Francis of Assisi to commit his life to what he called "absolute Love." Chronic bad health made it impossible for him to continue his original choice of staying in a Capucine monastery. As it turned out, the secular world proved a fertile field for action. He joined the French Resistance during the war in Grenoble, and helped Jews, forced laborers and others escape from occupied France; it was in that capacity that he took the name Abb? Pierre. In 1944 he moved to Algiers to join...
Confined to his bed in the last decade of his life and unable to paint, Henri Matisse found inspiration in the unlikeliest of sources. Across the beige walls of his Montparnasse apartment, he began assembling paper cut-out images of the South Pacific, which he had visited 16 years before. Here starfish bloomed, dolphins danced and seabirds swooped in an imaginary lagoon, eventually finding their perfect expression in the floating fabrics of his late, great silkscreen panels of Oceania, which can be seen at the National Gallery of Australia. "From the first, the enchantments of the sky there, the fish...
...more valuably-in part by drawing on friends and philosophers from Europe and Asia-he shows us, in practical ways, how we can make our lives more fulfilling. Ricard started out as a French intellectual who received a doctorate in molecular biology and counted Luis Bu?uel, Igor Stravinsky and Henri Cartier-Bresson among his friends. But 35 years ago he went to Nepal to become a Buddhist monk. When a European scientist from the Himalayas takes us into the meaning of well-being, the result is something that does not belong to East or West, to Buddhism or to neuroscience...