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...rest of it I could give or take, but I was hoping for the lasagna. My parents have students over for a lasagna dinner at our house every year, and it always seemed like that was an important part of undergraduate education: Italian food and close mentorship. Because I basically got neither at Harvard, I thought this was a major fault of the whole endeavor. My vision of what college was supposed to be was totally shaped by my impressions of my dad and his students. Anything different from that was imperfect. That was before my dad came to college...
...which was organized by curator Mason Klein, seeks to complicate our understanding of Modigliani. For one thing, it argues that each of his portraits is a signpost of the outsider, that Modigliani's art is the outcome of his position as a stranger in the Paris art world, an Italian and a Sephardic Jew in a France where the air was still poisoned by the Dreyfus affair. ("I am Modigliani, Jew" is how he sometimes introduced himself, especially after he got his first taste of French anti-Semitism.) Even if you don't entirely buy Klein's thesis that...
...figures tied into knots by their own perplexities. Instead he deployed the most serene line in the whole School of Paris, a line that stretches back four centuries to the elongated figures of Pontormo and Parmigianino. Modigliani came to Paris not only as a Jew but also as an Italian, steeped in the art of the quattrocento and the High Renaissance and their Mannerist aftermath. You find the sources of his poised, limpid line in the elegant whiplashing of Botticelli and the Madonnas of Simone Martini. And that quizzical tilt to the head that you see in his 1919 portrait...
DIED. UMBERTO AGNELLI, 69, chairman of ailing Italian automaker Fiat; of cancer; in Turin, Italy. Agnelli, the dynasty's quiet member who took the reins after the death last year of his dashing older brother Giovanni, had been helping turn around the troubled company...
...City Place had a motto, it could be "We have ways of making you walk." Before they sat down at their computers, its architects spent several weeks abroad studying rambling Italian towns. In the covered walkways of City Place you can find an echo of the archway arcades of Bologna, one of the world's great cities for strolling. Spanish steps, bridges and other features tempt your feet forward. And there are no traffic lights. In City Place, pedestrians always have the right...