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...such novels-in-a-day, mentioning—among others—Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions of one man with his work, his family, and his fellow Londoners. Perhaps the Iraq war is still too recent...
...little things like a woman’s blonde hair, a hooker’s green or blue eyes, and Dwight’s bright red sneakers give eye-catching excitement to each frame. The blood is particularly colorful, and appears in red, chocolate-syrupy black, and even tempera-paint white...
...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...