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...rest his life in Lunéville, surviving the plague and the Thirty Years' War and growing steadily rich. His tax exemption fattened him, and the poorer citizens of Lunéville resented it; in 1646 they besought the duke to tax everyone equally for war, including "the painter M. Georges de La Tour," who "makes himself odious to the people by the number of dogs he keeps ... as though he were lord of the place, coursing his greyhounds through the corn, spoiling and trampling it." Apparently La Tour remained a crusty squire...
Acid Holes. Another expatriate in Rome, Painter Yuri Titov, 44, last week was desperately trying to save some of the 62 pictures he took out of Russia last month. Titov and his wife -both members of a group called the "Democratic Movement"-had departed Moscow only after "it became ab-olutely impossible for us to live there any longer," and had insisted on taking the pictures with them. After the paintings had cleared Soviet customs in Moscow and been put aboard an Aeroflot plane, acid was surreptitiously poured on the painted surfaces of the Christ figures, Crucifixions and icons that...
Peretz is a research fellow at the Institute of Politics, and a trustee of Franconia College, the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, and the Signet Society. Anne Peretz is a painter whose works have been exhibited at the Aspects Gallery in New York City...
...artists display a nearly absolute disregard for the canons and lessons of "classical" modern art. "Maybe it's a perversion, or an alienation, or a toughness," says Painter George Cohen, "or maybe we're just losers. But there is a reluctance to do something just because it's 'right.' " Indeed, as the show repeatedly proves, Chicagoans take more pleasure in doing things that are "wrong": scrambled, left-footed, irretrievably vulgar, offensive in subject matter...
...twain met in 1960 at the Mac-Dowell Colony, a sylvan artists' preserve in Peterborough, N.H. She, Foumiko Kometani, was a painter from Japan. He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village. As newlyweds, they began family life simply, with a cat named Brodsky. In 1964 a son, Karl Taro, was born. Two years later Foumiko gave birth to another child, a placid, ethereally beautiful boy whom they named Noah Jiro...