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We are apt to suppose that Cro-Magnon cave art was rare and exceptional. But wrongly; as New York University anthropologist Randall White points out, more than 200 late-Stone Age caves bearing wall paintings, engravings, bas-relief decorations and sculptures have been found in southwestern Europe alone. Since the...
But something also changed about the dancers themselves. Youths are now capable of astonishing technical feats-just as they are in various Olympic sports. Too often both choreography and coaching emphasize virtuosity in what might be called a can-you-top-this derby. Violette Verdy, an elegant Paris Opara ballerina...
Paris, in all events, managed to keep its skirts above water. Although the Seine swelled 4.92 m higher than its normal level, the flow blocked only some riverside expressways and prompted the closure of some tunnels under the river as a precaution. But the exemption did not mean that Paris...
Some of the most striking representations of a sterilized or blurred. Michel Dector and Michel Dupuy's joint contribution, Drancy (1994), is a segmented white canvas with a smeared, irregular blot faded into its surface. Suggestive at first glance of a stain beneath the skin, good and evil blurred, it...
Around the globe, investors were nervous and markets jittery last week as billions of dollars were being pulled out of countries suddenly considered at risk, especially developing nations that were the darlings of money managers just a few months ago. ``What we're seeing around the world is a flight...