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...actor, an off-Broadway director and a film journalist, and I had made one low-budget film, Targets--a propitious beginning to my career. In my personal life, I had been married since the age of 22 to Polly Platt, and we had two small daughters. My father, a painter of the post-Impressionist school whom I greatly admired, was an undemonstrative man who said very little. I didn't realize, at that young age, how much I hungered for his approval or how little I understood myself...
There was a time, only about 15 years ago, when David Ji, co-founder of Apex Digital, the top-selling maker and importer of DVD players, couldn't rent a movie. When he was a graduate student and part-time house painter, Ji says, "I wanted a VCR, but I couldn't afford...
...DIED. ROBERTO MATTA ECHAURREN, 91, Chilean painter whose hallucinatory images of cosmic dream worlds made him a leading Surrealist artist; in Civitavecchia, near Tarquinia, Italy. Matta lik-ened his images to the experience of clasping one's eyes shut against the light...
...pent Bakeri. Tucked away behind the Royal Palace, on an anonymous side street aptly called Inkognito Terrasse, the bakery is marked by the long line snaking out the door - a cross-section of Oslo that, on my visit, included an elderly matron in a fur hat, a painter in splattered coveralls and young fashionistas. Most offerings, like the crusty walnut bread (delicious even without butter), are French, but the methods are artisanal Norwegian. As is the one must-taste - and don't pretend you don't know what it is. Go on, have a raisin bun. See what I mean...
...commercial photographs of grand suburban houses. But it didn't take him long to see the larger possibilities of this new toy. During a trip to Europe a few years before, he was converted to the work of Picasso and Braque. (He was soon well enough established as a painter that six of his canvases were included in the Armory Show of 1913, which brought the work of the European avant-garde to America, along with a lasting public uproar over whether modern art was art.) What Sheeler gradually realized was that the camera could find in the real world...