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...Camp David negotiations. ''And if they waited, history would write about them as people who had missed a chance to end their careers with a capstone achievement.'' Beyond that, they were impelled, or at least strongly encouraged, by new historical realities. The cold war left Arafat without a Soviet patron; backing the wrong side in the Gulf War cost him his wealthy oil-state sponsors. The Israelis were growing weary of the economic and moral costs of the endless occupation. In South Africa the white minority faced a catastrophe: a main achievement of apartheid had been to inflict fatal damage...
...Julius Caesar”—and they appear to have sparked Shakespeare’s creativity. However, due to the strict enforcement of censorship in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare could not make overt comparisons to the government. After all, the English court was a patron of his theater company. At the time, authors were sent to the gallows at Tyburn or starved to death in the Tower of London just for subtly criticizing the Queen. Meanwhile, Shakespeare faced an increase in the number of rival theater companies—giving new meaning to the statement, by Jacques...
...marble/onyx rises above three capering nudes. But the Detroit show is frank in acknowledging the timidity, repetition and sheer mediocrity of some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which the son of Zeus holds high the severed head of Medusa while her winged body collapses in a long arc around his feet, may not be the work of an avant-gardist, but that...
...museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child's face and the steady posture of the animal...
Thursday, Nov. 3—Saturday, Nov. 12. Hello Dali. A down-on-his-luck curator and a successful patron of the arts battle to claim a long-lost and historic Dali painting. Currier House. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...