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...Marielito refugees named after the Cuban port of Mariel from which they fled to the U.S. Last month the immigrants organized a daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer and Dancer Pedro Pablo Peña, who washed up on the shores of Key West in a shrimper and now directs the 14-member Creation Ballet in Coral Gables: "This is the other face of Mariel. It shows we are succeeding and contributing to this country...
...Pablo Mendoza Jr. San Diego
...years in Florence steeping himself in Renaissance art. At 30, he became the youngest director in the history of London's National Gallery. Between knighthood (1938) and the award of a life peerage (1969), Lord Clark wrote a score of books, maintained heady friendships (Winston Churchill, Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles (Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford) and cultural posts (founding chairman of the Independent Television Authority). "K," as chums called him, was self-deprecating in a 1974 autobiography: "My whole life might be described as one long, harmless confidence trick...
...largely González's own work that made them true. The great shift in sculptural history during this century, away from "closed" (solid) to "open" (constructed) form, became possible through the use of iron. González's work, and in particular his collaboration with Pablo Picasso more than half a century ago, was the clue to this shift. Without González the story of modern sculpture would be wholly different, perhaps unrecognizable...
They invented the summer season on the Riviera. The guest list at their 14-room Villa America near Antibes included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the Murphys as models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. They were the subjects of Calvin Tomkins' 1971 bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge...