Word: milan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dolci's complexity is really a radical innocence: he has an immediate and child-like reaction to wrong, and a child's ruthless logic: "I studied architecture in Rome and Milan, but one day I thought it over. In a country like Italy, architecture is for the rich. It becomes the art of putting injustices into stone. So I stopped." Overcoming the resistance of his family--"like all middle class Italian families, they wanted me 'systemized'"--Dolci went into social work. Until 1951, he wrote and published religious poetry, but he now considers himself an agnostic...
Most of the time he was right, though courts have occasionally ruled that he really painted some work he said was faked. One authoritative Milan art critic estimated last week that "sixty percent of the paintings he sequesters are really fakes. Thirty percent he painted himself, and ten percent he painted himself but has forgotten about and is denouncing in good faith...
Wonderfully Disgraceful. The newest De Chirico malediction involved Milan's respected Brera Galleria, which last week put up for sale 248 examples of modern art that included six De Chiricos, two of them in his metaphysical style. Strolling through the exhibit before the sale, white-thatched De Chirico, now 72. was spotted by an attendant who asked: "Maestro, if you were on a sinking ship with these six paintings, vhich one would you save?" "I'd save them all," replied the maestro, and promptly went about "saving...
...said grimly: "You realize that my work has only just begun." Wherever the work takes her, she knows that from time to time she must go home to Laurel again: it is the place where she feels she can be "just Leontyne." After the triumphs at Salzburg and Milan, she recalls, she made a flying visit and encountered a deacon of St. Paul's Methodist Church walking up South Fifth Avenue. "Hi, Leontyne," said the deacon. "Still singin...
...early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost is out of the ground...