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...noted “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” exhibition at the Fogg showcased works by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. A distinguished collector, Lois Orswell bequeathed her collection to the Fogg five years ago, and the show was the first time her collection was shown as a cohesive group...
...Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's most irrepressibly public philosopher, says he's always been fighting the same adversary: "the will to purity," whether political or racial. In a long career of public causes, he has seen that ill will on the faces of Nazi sympathizers, the Soviet nomenklatura, Pakistani generals fighting against Bangladesh's independence, and Serb paramilitaries bent on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Now he sees it in militant Islam - which he believes is perilously close to acquiring nuclear arms. Lévy's latest book was not prompted by political theory, but brute fact: the murder...
...doesn't interest me," Henri Cartier-Bresson says of photography. "It never has. The only thing that has ever been important is drawing." He is sitting at the living-room window of his fifth-floor Paris apartment, looking out over the Tuileries Gardens. It's almost exactly the same plunging view, he points out, that was painted by Monet and Cézanne. Cartier-Bresson abandoned photography in the mid-1970s and now prefers to discuss painting and drawing, his later passions. But even he can't deny the unforgettable images he captured during a half-century of photojournalism. This...
...Francois-Henri worked his way up through several of the family businesses over 15 years, in what amounted to an extended apprenticeship, before his father allowed him to join Artemis in 2001. The two men say that they work closely on decisions but that "it's not a tandem that can last for eternity, because you need only one person in charge," says Francois. Of his son he says, "It's clear he will take the reins." Their biggest challenge now is to earn a return on their $5 billion investment in Gucci at a time of worldwide economic weakness...
Certainly that was the case when the two men first met in Paris around 1905. Henri Matisse was then leader of the Fauves--the wild beasts--whose abruptly brushed, feverishly colored canvases had taken the lessons of Van Gogh and Gauguin to the inevitable far reaches. Pablo Picasso, 12 years younger, was still little known and working--though sometimes to surprising effect--with the dwindling resources of fin-de-siecle Symbolism. Both men were coming to grips with Cezanne and the means by which he represented space--with shallow patches of pigment that create the illusion of depth but still...