Word: orsay
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...Korean statuary to make their way across America. In San Francisco last week, the Asian Art Museum celebrated the opening of a sizable new home in the city's former main library, a 1917 neoclassical building reconceived by Gae Aulenti, the Italian designer who updated the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. It's no mystery why the largest American museum devoted to Asian art should be located in a city where some 40% of the population is of Asian descent, chiefly Chinese and Philippine, but including Indian, Pakistani, Lao, Vietnamese and Korean too. "We also know...
...This fall's lineup is exceptionally eclectic. In addition to the blockbuster Matisse and Picasso show at the Grand Palais and the big Max Beckmann retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, the season's new shows include Old Masters, guitar gods and great photographers. At the Musée d'Orsay, Manet/Velázquez, The Spanish Manner in the 19th Century documents the influence of the great 17th and 18th century Spanish painters - Velázquez, Mur?llo, Zurbarán, Ribéra, Goya - on such 19th century French artists as Manet, Delacroix, Chassériau and Courbet. What the French...
...nudity domesticated by classical settings, society ladies frozen for posterity in tight waists and inflated hairstyles. In contrast, a fashion exhibit features more relaxed garments from the '20s to current couture. The original collection has also been boosted by loans from the likes of the Musée d'Orsay, adding works by Tamara de Lempicka, who painted celebrities of the '30s in their designer glad rags, and Raoul Dufy, whose textile designs influenced his painting...
...could go on, I suppose, into music or political philosophy--but the point should be obvious. The good news, of course, is that like the lucky, imaginary Rudolph, we too can read Conrad (or Nietzsche, to give the Teutons their due), we too can wander the Musee d'Orsay and see the flowering of the Impressionist genius--we too can enjoy the culture of a lost time...
...also weapons; computers gave us the Internet but also guided nuclear missiles. There is no reason to think that in a couple of centuries man has evolved so much that we would be able to change our basic instincts. I vote against the Human Genome Project. JEAN-MARC JANCOVICI Orsay, France...