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...GELLERT Budapest's most opulent public bathhouse?bathing here is like soaking in a cathedral. Built in 1918, the Art Nouveau bath is a maze of eight thermal pools, and a feast for the eye with its fine statuary, mosaic walls and columns lining the pools. One-day entry...
...script by Anthony Burgess and top Italian filmwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico ("Open City," "The Bicycle Thief," "Big Deal on Madonna Street," "The Leopard") makes clear the legal grounds for killing Jesus. Under Mosaic law, blasphemy ("I'm Yahweh") is a capital crime; under Roman law, calling yourself King of the Jews is treason. The writers' touch is especially careful and coherent in the trial scene. The Sanhedrin is no lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace...
...City's Whitney Museum, covers the artist's various phases - figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings" on view is a striking 1993 portrait of Olatz, which has the mercurial effect of a Cubist-style mosaic. Opposite hang blood-red abstracts painted on tarps or sailcloth, white Rothko-like spears slashing across blackened surfaces, and delicate, geisha-like figures trailing off into tendrils of action painting. The wall-sized Large Girl with No Eyes, painted in 2001 in a pseudo-Pop Art style, shows a close...
...Front Range, however, big burns were spaced farther apart, allowing flammable material to accumulate. These fires rolled through every few decades or so and occasionally burned extremely hot. Their legacy, says Merrill Kaufmann, a senior scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station, was a mosaic of forested areas that alternated with clearings ranging from 5 acres to 100 acres in size...
...unveiled in July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered...