Word: picassos
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...produced any number of competent sculptors, even a few first-rate ones, but perhaps only two that brought authentic greatness to their own genres: David Smith and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Smith's work was the climax of a tradition of open, sheet-metal sculpture that began in 1912 with Picasso's tin guitar; Saint-Gaudens, at the end of the 19th century, epitomized the academic tradition of public speech through bronze casting, whose roots wound back to Donatello and Verrocchio...
...despite all the talk of organic spaces, Wynn can't completely keep the old showman in check. His original plan for the hotel called for a small, intimate, all-suites establishment. That didn't last long. It was also supposed to be named Le Rêve, after the Picasso painting, instead of Wynn, after himself. He was certain for years that he wanted all the signs in the hotel to be sleek and minimal. Then he saw the giant Louis Vuitton sign in his retail space a few weeks before the opening. "Now that's a sign!" he told...
...Italian steamer to Europe, where for about three years he painted in flophouses in Florence, Madrid and Paris. Desperate to learn about art, Botero and a friend traveled by motorcycle to the south of France, where they hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings...
...family life. Colombians call their most famous artist El Maestro, and he returns their affection. He's donated hundreds of his paintings and sculptures to museums in Bogotá and Medellín, as well as his entire personal collection of modern art, including works by Chagall, Matisse, Picasso and others he has purchased over the years. "As soon as [the donations] were made official, my father would walk through the streets and people would throw themselves at him," says his son, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, 44, a novelist who moved to Miami five years ago. But the artist...
...iconic style 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 Paris was the stomping ground of Cubist creators Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, so it must be the city in which the angular arts style reached its full potential, right? Not so, says Zdenek Lukes of the National Heritage Department at the Office of the Czech President. "Paris is where Cubism was born," he says, "but Prague is where...