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Chagall's lifelong touchstone was Vitebsk, the Russian village where he was born in 1887. His parents were Yiddish-speaking Hasidim, descended from a culture suspicious of imagery but possessing a long tradition of mysticism and of the spiritual ecstasy that courses through his art. In My Life, the lovely but unreliable memoir that he wrote when he was just 35, Chagall recalls how his family used painted canvases to protect the wooden floors of their house. "My sisters," he observes dryly, "thought pictures were made expressly for that purpose...
...Doctors attempted to separate the conjoined Bijani twins to free them from lifelong attachment, and Charles Krauthammer attempted, in his criticism of physician-assisted suicide, to split similarly inseparable moral hairs. The Bijani twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe...
...hundreds of paintings and drawings, including some of the most dramatic and luminous works of his career. Paul Klee, Fulfillment in the Late Work, at Basel's Beyeler Foundation (through Nov. 9, then moving to Hanover) documents those last four years. This superb exhibit sums up the artist's lifelong research into line, color and form, and displays his often mystic face-off with fear, death and the unknown. Even the exhibit's 121 paintings and drawings - assembled from museums and private collections in Europe and the U.S. - represent only a minuscule portion of Klee's prodigious output...
...Thomas J. Davis—a lifelong friend of Trombly's who witnessed part of the beating and testified in court last week—said that his faith in public institutions has been shaken...
...lifelong pianist and singer says that he learned one significant lesson from his time as the registrar in New Haven...