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...serious engagement,’ because, quite falsely, it was claimed that whatever was being created was derivative of modern art in the West,” Blier says. As opposed to the West influencing African art, Blier emphasizes, African art has had an influence on the West. Pablo Picasso, whose cubist work in particular illustrates the artist’s African inspirations, is just one prominent example.This historical disinterest is manifested in the lack of African art on Harvard’s own campus. It currently enjoys only a scattered presence, featured on a small scale in buildings such...
...Certainly, Spain's next generation is less likely than any before to be reared within the traditional family structure. Noelia Posse, 29, says she always wanted to be a parent. But by the time her son Pablo was born two years ago, Posse's live-in boyfriend had already moved out. "We were in love, and decided to have a child. Sometimes things don't work out," says the city councilor in Móstoles, southwest of Madrid. "But I would have had a child even if I'd had to go to a sperm bank. My family is Pablo...
...apparently unrelated incident, two paintings by Pablo Picasso were stolen last week from an exhibition of the artist's works in the nearby Pfaffikon. The Horse's Head and the Glass and Jug, both on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany, are estimated at several million dollars...
...ornate chambers of the Italian Senate on Thursday. There were bombastic speeches by party members defying their leaders' orders on which way to vote. Former Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, who'd brought on the government crisis by yanking his support from Prodi, choked up as he recited a Pablo Neruda poem. One lawmaker was accused of spitting at another, as he screamed "traitor!", "piece of merda!" and made the gesture of firing a gun. The targeted Senator then duly fainted (or feigned a fainting) in his soft chamber chair. Finally, just after the votes were counted, victorious center-right lawmakers...
...extremely rare representation of the goddess - known elsewhere as Ishtar - in animal form. She is one of the earliest of the gods whose names have survived through history. Before her sale, the most expensive piece of sculpture of any period sold at auction was a piece by Pablo Picasso which went for $29 million. The previous antiquities record was set by a Roman bronze which sold for $28 million...