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...politically tense place, especially for those who showed an interest in Western ideas and culture. A student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Wu Hung was part of a small group of friends and fellow painters who shared an enthusiasm for Beatles records and Impressionist paintings, among other things. "Once the Cultural Revolution came," says Wu Hung, "all these things were seen in a political light...
...intensely imaginative 13-show career, Stephen Sondheim has embraced all those unpromising themes. From his big-time debut in 1957 as the lyricist of West Side Story to his 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George, a fantasy about the creation of a French impressionist painting, Sondheim, 56, has steadily pushed toward--or beyond--the limits of what the score, the narrative, the very premise of a musical can be. More than anyone else writing today, perhaps more than anyone who came before, he merges a consummate mastery of what musicals have been with a vision...
Lopez's art is not just about appearance. Its essential subject is time--how to use it, how to slow its passage, how to testify about a fugitive world that changes as he looks. The impressionist view--a motif, or the approximation of one, seen and completed in a few hours--is not for Lopez. His paintings come out of the most patient scrutiny in contemporary art. The panoramic view of downtown Madrid that is the show's centerpiece took eight years to finish, from 1974 to 1982. Muted and austere, almost palpably grimy and smoggy, it sets forth miles...
...morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name...
Renoir's work was exhibited in the first Impressionist show in Paris in 1874; his 1904 retrospective exhibit is generally considered to have solidified his reputation as a painter...