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...prison camp in Hereford, Texas. Depressed and dispirited, Burri abandoned medicine for art. Short of materials, he turned to the abundant supply of burlap in the camp and used it as a canvas. After the war, Burri returned to Italy, where he and contemporaries Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni forged their own unique style to grab attention from the American and French modernists then in vogue. It was the burlap paintings that first drew the attention of American art critics to Burri in the early '50s; a young Robert Rauschenberg came to Rome to watch him work. "To his peers...
...Today, Tuesday, we were summoned to a press conference at 12:30 p.m. with Archbishop Piero Marini, the papal master of ceremonies, and Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Pope John Paul II's longtime spokesman. Getting there, through the throngs of people on the streets of Vatican City was a major challenge. Watching on TV, you will have seen the hundreds of thousands jamming onto the Via Della Conciliazione, the wide boulevard leading up to St. Peter's Basilica. But what you don't see on TV is that the parallel side streets are also packed, wall to wall. The crowd here...
...beaches to deter poachers. The best place to witness the world's most unusual beach party is Mt. Plaisir Estate at Grande Riviere, where you can sit below the spreading almond trees that fringe the waterfront and wait for Dermochelys coriacea to do its thing. Italian-born owner-manager Piero Guerrini quit his job as a news photographer when he discovered this small corner of paradise, and he created a funky, all-suite hotel and spa - with its own herb garden, so the menu can boast fresh pesto Genovese despite the tropical setting. It attracts an eclectic bunch of guests...
...Cibo; his interactions with the Marchessa Ruccellai Cibo (Olga V. Fedorishcheva ’03) are a real highlight. Emily V.W. Galvin ’04, as the aging patriot Filippa Strozzi, projects a stoic grandeur even in her moments of most intense suffering, while her rather misguided son Piero (Nick J. O’Donovan) seethes and rages with persuasive intensity. Strozzi’s two daughters, Luisa (Alexa L.M. von Tobel ’06) and Prior Tomassa (Erica R. Lipez ’05) both act well; von Tobel, acrobatic and emotively melodramatic, is uniquely hilarious...
...will remain in Paris until Jan. 5, before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts from Jan. 31-April 18. Botticelli, from Lorenzo the Magnificent to Savonarola (Oct. 1-Feb. 22) assembles 20 Botticelli paintings and six drawings, plus a dozen works by contemporaries like Filippo Lippi and Piero di Cosimo, all working during the late 15th century, when Florence blossomed in the humanist atmosphere of the Medici court before being swallowed up by the fire-and-brimstone fervor of the Dominican monk Savonarola. Along with several of Botticelli's delicate Madonnas, the show's highlights include a colored...