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...kind of contemporary art, mentioning that her friends back home in Spain had similar reactions to the Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum in Bilbao when it opened. “Everybody was amazed. Either you love or you hate it. But maybe they say the same thing about Michelangelo,” Yanguas says. Godfrey, a Yale and Edinburgh-educated artist, says that he has been working with this style of non-rigid steel forms for about ten years, and at this large scale for about five. This kind of work, he says, is meant to be interactive—it?...
ROSS KING King has madea career of elucidating crucial episodes in the history of art and architecture (Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling). This time he's at play in the fields of French art and society from 1863 to 1874, years when France preferred academic painters, with their lusty goddesses and uplifting battle scenes. But what France preferred was under challenge by a rising (and sometimes backbiting) new group of artists. At the same time, the vainglorious Emperor Louis-Napolon was stumbling into the calamities of war and revolution. Eventually art would imitate life...
...start chiseling away—at our own lives, at our own world—without taking that essential first step. Yet without it, monkeys pounding away on typewriters have as great a chance of writing the next great American novel as we do of making the next Michelangelo. Certainly, much of our world is determined, molded by forces completely beyond our control. Our chances of affecting meaningful change may be extremely slim or nonexistent altogether. Nevertheless, we forfeit any such opportunities if we abandon our hope in their existence. I often think back to the MLKs of our history?...
...TIME's cover art is always original and meaningful, but the illustration for "Italy vs. China," depicting Michelangelo's David and a Chinese terra-cotta soldier arm wrestling, was extraordinary. My congratulations to the artist. Montano Riva Barbaran Longare, Italy...
...science. It has failed to invest in research, education and high technology. Now the reality is hitting home, and Italy will go down. The question is how far down. Diego Amicabile Munich Time's cover art is always original and meaningful, but the illustration for " Italy vs. China," depicting Michelangelo's David and a Chinese terracotta soldier arm wrestling, was extraordinary. My congratulations to the artist. Montano Riva Barbaran Longare, Italy The competition between these two countries will serve only to enrich the profiteers and impoverish the rest of us. China pays low wages and has weak environmental standards...