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...Metall signaled last week that peace has its limits. Germany's largest industrial union took a strike vote in two regions of the country, and companies began gearing up for a walkout. "The employers destroyed the last chance of a peaceful solution of the wage conflict," said Klaus Zwickel, the group's feisty chairman. "They have forced IG Metall into industrial action." Assuming the strike vote passes - at least 75% of the membership is required - work stoppages could begin as soon as May 6 in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, home to carmakers DaimlerChrysler and Porsche...
...hospitality, this last revelation is as deplorable as anything in Goñi's investigations. The roll call of indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...
...Mark Rothko ultimately became famous for his luminous abstract paintings of colored fields, his less well-known early realist work—though fundamentally different—shaped and, in hindsight, foreshadowed what was later to come, an evolution clearly visible in the collection of early works curated by Klaus Kertess at the PaceWildenstein Gallery...
Some Options in Abstraction, a thoughtful and provocative show curated by Klaus Kertess at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, seeks to make this relationship accessible and concrete. Kertess has selected a small but rich and diverse body of work; these dozen paintings and photographs by seven artists illuminate some “options” in contemporary art. Viewing the works—awe-inspiring for their large size yet friendly and accessible in this familiar context—one is forced to contemplate the nature of what comes after the minimal, the reality behind a picture?...
...made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, but the Soviets (through Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs and others...