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There is nothing so raw in the rooms that follow, filled with the surgical purity of Kinetic and Op art, until we reach works inspired by '60s politics. Like artists before World War I, Jean Jacques Lebel draws on images of lowlife, but in Parfum Gréve Générale, bonne odeur (1960), pretty girls posing in underwear rub elbows with bloody corpses. Jacques de la Villeglé's Boulevard de la Bastille (1969) uses torn posters from the previous year's near-revolution overlaid with depictions of General de Gaulle...
When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
Rollerball, directed by John McTiernan of Die Hard fame, skates into theaters today. Starring Chris Klein (the American Pie movies), LL Cool J (Toys, Any Given Sunday), Jean Reno (The Professional , Ronin) and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (X-Men, Dirty Work), this film depicts a future in which corporations, instead of countries, govern the people of the world. The story focuses on an extremely popular sport called Rollerball— created by executives in order to avert attention from their tyrannical control over the general populace, the show gradually becomes more and more violent as the man in charge, Alexis Petrovich...
That wait came to an end last month when Prime Minister Lionel Jospin officially opened the "Palais de Tokyo, site for contemporary arts." With breathtaking imposture, architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal transformed the monumental 1930s splendor of the Palais de Tokyo building into an exact replica of a derelict warehouse - spending $3.3 million of French taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper...
...finish up at the track, we visit the bobsledders. The U.S. women are famously controversial, owing to top-gun driver Jean Racine kicking her former best friend and brakeman Jen Davidson out of the sled. Racine and new brakeman Gea Johnson still have a good chance to medal. On the men's side, Texan Todd Hays, 32, is a household name from Calgary to Cortina after emerging during the current World Cup series as a daring driver with a superfast sled...