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...tail end of the 15th century, artists were seen as craftsmen rather than geniuses. His bourgeois father disapproved of his low-status career choice. Thankfully, however, about 600 of the drawings survive, and around 95 have been beautifully reassembled in an exhibition titled Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master, which runs at London's British Museum until June 25. The drawings, taken from the museum's own collection and others in Oxford and the Netherlands, are displayed chronologically, next to small reproductions of the relevant finished works. Visitors can follow the artist's career as he followed the money, oscillating...
...Elizabeth Bishop’ as a poet. This book is not,” Vendler writes. According to New, it’s important to save the work of the poet who once wrote that “the art of losing isn’t hard to master.” “The fact that Bishop’s poems will survive into an age with different canons of taste and analysis makes me glad that we’ll have more of her to read,” she wrote. Vendler, who is on sabbatical this...
...After attending a top private school in Lima, earning a master's degree in political science and studying for a while in France, Humala has spent virtually his entire working life in the army, an experience that has raised questions about his commitment to human rights and democracy. He is accused of torturing and killing suspected guerrillas during the country's war against terrorism and the Shining Path in the early 1990s - allegations he says are part of a smear campaign - and led a failed uprising against former President Alberto Fujimori in October 2000, only a few weeks before Fujimori...
...Coach] Charley [Butt] is a master of building to a perfect crescendo—to peak just at the right time,” Reid said. “We have faith in his process, and he’s going to get it done, and we’ll be ready by that time. We have lots of time to make sure that we get it right...
...SUED. JET LI, 42, charismatic Chinese martial-arts star; by the descendants of Qing-dynasty kung fu master Huo Yuanjia, whom Li portrayed in the recent film Fearless; in Beijing. Huo's relatives say that the movie contains many inaccuracies about his life?for example, that he killed innocent people for sport?and maligns the family's reputation. The suit, which also names as defendants the movie's producers and distributors, calls for the film to be pulled from theaters and a public apology to be issued...