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Lascaux might have escaped history and its indignities if four boys rambling on a hillside just east of the Vezere River in southwestern France in 1940 had not decided to investigate an opening revealed by a fallen tree. Soon Abbe Henri Breuil, a pioneer in the study of Paleolithic cave art, arrived to inspect their extraordinary find. He theorized that Lascaux's broad galleries might indicate a magical or religious function for the drawings; Lascaux became known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory," and people clamored to see it. After the war, the La Rochefoucauld family, which owned the property...
...After graduating summa cum laude, Brown earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1958 and then studied art in Europe with Bernard Berenson, an expert on Italian art.“He was very earnest and very serious, and I liked him,” says Henri Zerner, a professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard who first met Brown when they were both studying art in Paris.Following the completion of an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Brown joined the National Gallery of Art as assistant to the director John Walker...
...initial response, across the board, has been prudently optimistic. "The last three months, he's said the right things," said presidential rival and vocal critic Charles Henri Baker. "If there's meat behind it, it could be great." Added one Western diplomatic, "He has reached out across the political divide, at home and abroad. He's building a new political tradition...
...Choreographic Offering” lacked emotional connection with the audience until too far into the performance. It engaged the audience as passively as a painting; in fact its visual aesthetics of brightly colored unitards and swiftly moving figures were reminiscent of “The Dance” by Henri Matisse.“Night Journey” was a powerful example of Martha Graham’s choreography, with brisk, sharp motion propelled from the very core and breath of the dancers. Regretfully, the two-minute excerpt was too brief to be fulfilling as it seemed to preclude...
...side of the room, ensconced on a banquette with some Parisian notables, was Franois-Henri Pinault, the affable CEO of PPR (formerly Pinault-Printemps Redoute), which owns Bottega Veneta and other high-end brands such as Gucci. At the center table, surrounded by furniture dealers and a smattering of old friends, sat Tomas Maier, 49, the German-born creative director of Bottega Veneta and the designer largely responsible for ushering in a profitable countertrend of subtlety and refinement to the overblown, logo-besotted luxury market. The mood he had created for the dinner jibed seamlessly with the mood...