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...small sights of Paris between 1926 and 1930; it was seen and enjoyed by a whole roster of artists, designers and architects--Joan Miro and Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier and Isamu Noguchi and, most important for the eventual direction of Calder's own work, Piet Mondrian...
...disguise, since he was posted to Quantico, Va., and while there was able regularly to visit Washington museums, especially the Phillips Collection. One painting there, in particular, got to him: Matisse's Studio, Quai St. Michel, 1916. Though Diebenkorn would continue to meditate on other works by Matisse (and Mondrian, and Cezanne, and Bonnard, and so on through a wide classical-modernist pantheon) for the rest of his working life, this particular Matisse, with its simultaneous inside-outside view, thrilled and inspired him: "I noticed its spatial amplitude; one saw a marvelous hollow or room yet the surface is right...
Twinkle, twinkle. The tiny white lights glitter in the ficus trees by the pool at Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when...
Never kick a man while he's in rehab. It's a painful lesson learned by the New York Daily News after it erroneously reported that Robert Downey Jr. was at the Mondrian hotel's so-cool-the-staff-is-icy Sky Bar in L.A. Problem I: Downey's on parole and isn't allowed in bars. Problem II: Downey was on set in Savannah, Georgia. Solution: Downey's suing the Daily News...
...idle to expect that artists and writers, torn from their context and milieu and dropped by the fortunes of war into a strange society, would easily continue to produce their best work. One who did was Mondrian, whose years in New York culminated in the wonderful Broadway Boogie-Woogie paintings, which couldn't be borrowed for this show. Beckmann painted some of his greatest allegories after 1937, when he fled to Amsterdam. Among them: Birds' Hell, 1938, his one clearly political work, a lurid scene of martyrdom with a bird-headed torturer carving parallel stripes on the back...