Word: maeght
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...concentrated on the best years of Miro's career, from 1915 to about 1960, and skipped the enormous output of prints and the flood of repetitious paintings he turned out in the last quarter-century of his life in his role as a sacred cash cow for the Galerie Maeght in Paris. Late Miro is dull fodder, except episodically; its high points are rare and generally have to do with civic decor, of which the big sculpture raised in the '80s in the Parc de l'Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes nothing away from...
...morning movies, one took a salade nicoise lunch at a beach restaurant, then rented a mattress and sunbathed for an indolent hour. The films then were part of a comprehensive Riviera experience: visiting the medieval town of St. Paul de Vence, seeing the Miro and Matisse works at the Maeght Museum, roller-coastering on Provence's precarious cornices. No time for that any more. Our schedules are busier than a big city mayor's. We are slaves to the five-film-a-day schedule, the press conferences and interviews. Of course, no one who's not in Cannes will feel...