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...late 1920s Picasso met the teenage Marie-Therese Walter, a pillowy blond who would shortly become his lover and eventually bear their daughter Maya. Within a few years he was seeking a way to paint rapture, and where better to find an answer than in the canvases of Matisse? For Nude in a Black Armchair, 1932, he borrowed Matisse's voluptuous curves as a sign for pleasure and his use of black to intensify pink. And on seeing work like that--pictures that amplified the innovations of his own earlier work--Matisse was inspired to the more radical flattening that...
...INDIA Holi [March 18] This most boisterous of Hindu festivals signals the end of winter and the start of spring. All over India, people celebrate by dancing, showering one another with paint and getting high on bhang?sweet buttermilk laced with cannabis. For information on the best places to enjoy the festival, phone India's tourism office in New Delhi at (91-11) 2371 8379 International Yoga Festival [March 1-6] The event, organized by the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India's "city of the divine," hosts yoga masters from all over the world who will demonstrate various yogic...
...paint the anti-war cause in a positive light when I take pictures,” he says...
...suggestions for dodging the charge: from high-tech devices that blur the number plate at the flick of a switch to cruder tactics like rubbing mud all over the tag. Motorists Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras throughout the U.K., plans to torch, spray-paint and run over the congestion-fee cameras, too. "We've clearly paid for these roads already," says a member of the group, who declines to be named. "We're like sheep. The French wouldn't have it." Driving has never been an entirely logical exercise. Motorists make emotional decisions about...
...doesn’t seem right that four guys with bad voices can form an a capella group and get a show, but an artist at some Houses doesn’t have five feet to paint in,” he says. “In Adams, we’re lucky because we have studio and gallery space...