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...reconciliation: when Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in South Africa's apartheid prisons, he astonished the world by preaching liberation with forgiveness. But personally forgiving someone who has killed your loved one is one of the hardest things we can ever do. "Forgiveness doesn't come easily," says Piet Meiring, a professor of theology who was part of South Africa's postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc). "You can't organize forgiveness and you can't force someone to forgive. Microwave-oven forgiveness - where you just pop something in and bing! - that will never last." Just take a look...
...space. Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena was both art center and hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, in an old chapel. tel: (31?20) 850 2420; www.hotelarena.nl A little more self-consciously arty is the Winston Hotel. Housed in converted terraces in the middle...
...formalist darlings, the painter Jackson Pollock. Formalist critics raved about his explosively gestural drips and splashes, but only so that they could begin talking about those marks as vehicles of existential self-expression. Likewise, formalists loved the austere combinations of line, plane and primary colors favored by the painter Piet Mondrian, but only because they offered a convenient segue into discussions of absolute harmony and abstract geometric balance...
...preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena, tel: (31-20) 850 2420, was an art center-cum-hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, built in an old chapel...
...both followers and enemies of Savonarola," says the curator. Filippino's works for Savonarola's followers were severe, whereas those for the preacher's enemies - such as his glorious frescoes in Florence's Strozzi Chapel - are filled with charming detail. In the final section, titled Pathos, Botticelli's superb Pietà from Milan is joined by Filippino's Repentant Mary Magdalene, which usually resides in a Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Although respectful of the Botticelli, Nelson feels that Filippino's painting combines exquisite grace and extreme passion in the same work. For the curator, the painting brings...