Word: metropolitanism
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...Paris last month--drawings and prints at the Bibliotheque Nationale, 163 paintings at the Grand Palais--marking the 200th anniversary of Corot's birth, is unlikely to bring that feeling back. (It travels to Ottawa's National Gallery of Canada in the summer and to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall.) But it's worth seeing, since though Corot may not be as good as people once thought, he's much better than we now tend to suppose...
...cost to our children and to our country is extremely high. It is estimated that children will see 100,000 acts of violence on television before they enter the seventh grade. According to Metropolitan Life's national survey of rural, urban, and suburban junior high school students, 36% believe their schools do only a fair or poor job of providing a safe environment in the school building. The same survey found that 16% of students reported being the victim of a violent incident that took place in or around their school. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an African...
...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...critic in the 1930s, and the label has stuck. They were Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Everett Shinn, William Glackens and George Bellows, and among them they created the first art of urban America. The current show at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York," is a fine introduction to their work...
...this trend was Rembrandt, whom Romantic writers in the early 1800s seized upon as an exemplar of the artist as Prometheus. As the demand for Rembrandts grew, so, mysteriously, did the supply. It is therefore worthwhile to note that several weeks before the Michelangelo and Shakespeare attributions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, just two blocks north of the house in which the little Cupid stands, came to the end of its "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt" exhibit. This show reflected the labors of the Rembrandt Research Project, an Amsterdam-based group of experts on Dutch painting that since...