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Miro, in Spanish, means ''he saw'' -- an absurdly good name for a painter. Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an...
Klaus will leave his job soon and move to Marseilles to open a German Bierhaus on the seafront, featuring perfect Bavarian cuisine and, of course, proper Bavarian beer. After that, he will open a Provencal restaurant in Bavaria. Students will travel back and forth, learn each language in a beer...
This is a perfectly amiable book but never even slightly a surprising one. Mayle wears smooth the cliches about the French--how their hauteur can be impeccable and their plumbing imponderable, how they drive too fast and have those jaunty bosoms. You imagine Mayle making his checklist of the bits...
New York City's latest addition to the roster of boutiques selling the old with the new is Lyell, a lovingly designed shop with a stamped tin ceiling and authentic '40s wallpaper. It sells a well-edited collection of vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell...
Consider my fictional ancestor visiting the France of 1901--Rudolph Douthat, we might call him, wandering the Quartier Latin and the narrow, flea-market streets of Montmartre. In the last twenty-five years alone, Paris has seen the sculptures of Rodin, the ballerinas of Degas, the water lilies of Monet...