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...very title of this summer's big show at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, which fills a floor of the cavernous Centre Georges Pompidou with 263 works by 95 artists (through Oct. 13), gives one pause: "Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Moderne?" (What is modern sculpture?). A tendentious question, perhaps, but not without its point. Most museumgoers feel they know what modern painting is. About sculpture they care less and are less sure...
...opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi (Grassi Palace Society for Actions), housed in an 18th century structure whose restoration and conversion was brilliantly carried out by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti. The new museum, lavishly funded by Fiat, is run by Pontus Hulten, former director of the Pompidou Center in Paris...
...help him engineer this dramatic transformation, Chirac named his longtime friend Edouard Balladur to be the Minister of Economy, Finance and Privatization. The most powerful Finance Minister in decades, Balladur, once a top aide to the late President Georges Pompidou, has been described by the French press as Chirac's alter...
Like Giscard, Chirac began his ascent in the early '60s as an aide to the late President Georges Pompidou, who was so impressed by Chirac's seemingly indefatigable capacity for work that he called him "my bulldozer." After Pompidou's death in 1974, Chirac backed Giscard's candidacy for President. A grateful Giscard rewarded him with the premiership. Believing that he was not allowed enough leeway to carry out his economic policies, Chirac resigned in August 1976 and formed his own party, Rally for the Republic. The following year he was elected mayor of Paris. An able and efficient administrator...
Chirac had joined the Gaullist party when he was only 14, and after leaving the Ecole Nationale he rose rapidly through the party ranks, achieving the position of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development under Pompidou. "Chirac was like fireworks," remembers one co-worker. "He took off from all sides--his arms, his legs, his ideas...