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...That Japanese buddha now reigns over a newly renovated Musèe Cernuschi. After nearly a century of refining and adding to Cernuschi's acquisitions, plus a three-year, $9 million refurbishment, the museum has reopened as one of Europe's premier collections of Chinese art-a coherent, chronological trove of works from the Neolithic period to the 13th century...
...museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others as a force-fed art history lecture. But there's no denying that when such exhibitions work, they can have an unmatched power. One of the best yet is "Bacon Picasso: A Life of Images" at Paris' Musée Picasso until...
...first-ever systematic analysis of Picasso's influence on Bacon, the show gathers some 100 works of the two 20th century legends. The Musée Picasso even attempts to re-create the show at the Paul Rosenberg Gallery, with plates of 40 of the drawings Bacon said "shocked" him into his career. Given that both artists specialized in distorted images, anthropomorphic monsters and screaming faces, the Rosenberg drawings are surprisingly mild. In fact, they are lyrical studies for Picasso's neoclassical works that were criticized at the time as a betrayal of the revolutionary spirit behind his Cubist masterpiece...
...Mexico and unselfconscious images of Europe, such as the ambiguous mutual grooming outside a brothel in an image titled Alicante. That last look, says Agnès Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, "made him very happy." The exhibition runs through Dec. 19, before traveling to the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, in February. For information, go to: www.henricartierbresson.org...
...year examinations under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will be continued according to the following schedule today and tomorrow. Unless otherwise stated, all tests begin at 9.15 o'clock: Examinations Today. Anthropology 7, Pierce 209 Anthropology 9, Peabody Mus. Astronomy 1: Anderson to Harper (inclusive), Sever 5 Helmus to Russell (inclusive), Sever 6 Salisbury to Winsor (inclusive), Sever 17 Chemistry 3, Zool. Lect.-rm. Economics 1A, Harvard 5 Economics 14, Sever 1 Education 1, Sever A English 3a, Pierce 202 English 29a, Pierce 209 Fine Arts 1c: Atkinson to Cook (inclusive), Sever B Coolidge to Joyce (inclusive), Sever...