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...Henri Matisse Retrospective" exhibition is the largest travelling exhibiton ever housed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Including more than 350 works, it displays the full range of Matisse's creative activity and development. More than 148,000 people saw it during its six-week stay in Chicago. Anticipating a similar response in New England, the Boston museum will keep the special exhibition galleries open until 10 p.m. Tuesday through Friday until the exhibition leaves on July...
...verge of becoming a lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse did many "free" copies...
...reading list [March 25] is hopelessly provincial. However you define modernism, it is an international phenomenon. Yet Connolly leaves out Ibsen and Strindberg, Nietzsche and Rilke, Tolstoy and Chekhov, all of whom surely have "helped shape the contemporary mind" to a far greater degree than Ivy Compton-Burnett or Henri Michaux. What about Marinetti and Cavafy and Karel Capek and Federigo Garcia Lorca and other influential thinkers who did not happen to write in English or French...
...Baptist deacon and collector of nonobjective painting, built his father's Nashville, Tenn., shoemaking firm into a $760 million-a-year shoe-and-clothing combine called Genesco Inc. As chairman, he controls some 1,500 retail outlets grouped under 50 firms, including I. Miller, Bonwit Teller, Roger Kent, Henri Bendel. Hoving, 68, stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall and looks every inch what he is: the supremely suave chairman of the grand Fifth Avenue jewelers, Tiffany...
Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Henri de Montherlant, Les Jeunes Filles. Marianne Moore, Selected Poems. George Moore, Memoirs of My Dead Life. George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984. Wilfred Owen, Poems. William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe. Ezra Pound, Lustra & Mauberley, The Pisan