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...year-old Russian dancer's first appearance since he slipped away in Toronto during a guest tour with the Bolshoi company and asked Canada for refuge. His performance as Albrecht proved that Baryshnikov is ultimately a premier danseur noble - and a star likely to outsoar the shadow of cold war night that made his debut a faintly political occasion...
...down an alley from the city's main street. He sells most of his pictures for under $50, and according to a friend, "if you express a special interest in something he has done, he'll insist on giving it to you." Eyuboglu's ambitions far outsoar commercial success. Says he: "My goal is to evolve an art as unique as Persian miniatures and Matisse, and as Turkish as our coffee and tobacco and figs...
...show includes some masterpieces which outsoar all such generalizations. Many of the best are religious in feeling and intention. Like the Christian monks of medieval Europe, Japan's Buddhist monks were often skilled artists. They kept the nation's art alive and growing in its early stages, with work that was devotional rather than self-expressive. Ascetic in the extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along. With increasing prosperity, the priests got professional artists to fill their temples with images of Buddha, his attendant deities and fierce guardian gods. Such...
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