Word: painting
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...careful, Harvard students: we have a spy in our midst. Author Sean Michael Green will be interviewing and researching at Harvard this month in preparation for his new book, which aims to paint an accurate portrait of campus life at the eight Ivy League schools...
...Halley's paintings were and are brightly colored geometric abstractions. "What I'm doing by today's standards is pretty tame," says Halley, who is head of the graduate program in painting at Yale's school of art. "On the other hand, I'm also associated with ideas about changes in technology, the digitalization of culture, that I find young artists are very interested in." And for all his reservations about the decade's club-crawling, fashion-flaunting, big-paint-splattering beginnings, he has good things to say about the '80s as an arena of ideas...
...Chirico's spirit is strongest in the top-floor painter's studio, which remains just as he left it at the time of his death. Dried-up paint tubes and brushes are strewn about, and his unfinished oil-on-canvas copy of Michelangelo's masterpiece The Doni Tondo is displayed on his easel. Sunlight streams through the skylights, illuminating De Chirico's library of art and philosophy books and his collection of traditional Italian good-luck charms. De Chirico's modern twist on the classical is a fresh and re-energizing dose of Roman art. Reservations must be made...
...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder When you've had enough of Rome's ancient ruins, Caravaggio paintings and Bernini buildings, drop into the De Chirico House-Museum for a bracing look at the life and work of a 20th century master. Giorgio de Chirico fused a classical eye with a disquieting imagination to create Metaphysical art - like the eerie Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1914), which...
...just need to get a bunch of blue paint and pour it on Mather,” he said...