Word: renoirs
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...Tyco's finances to determine if the game has been rigged. Kozlowski, 55, resigned last week from the helm of Tyco just before the Manhattan district attorney charged him with evading $1 million in sales taxes on more than $13 million in art, including paintings by Renoir and Monet, that he bought in the past 10 months. Kozlowski pleaded not guilty, and neither he nor his attorney would comment on the charges. "He sounded like a man under siege," says a business acquaintance who spoke briefly to Kozlowski...
Next time your kids sit down at the computer to zap some aliens or instant-message a friend, consider this: they could instead be composing an octet or viewing a Renoir...
...atelier of Charles Gleyre in Paris in 1862 formed friendships between Impressionist greats including Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Impressionist Still Life displays Bazille’s and Sisley’s versions of “The Heron,” which they painted side by side in 1867. Several Bazille and Renoir paintings were created while the two were sharing a studio...
...like to touch. I love hands-on museums with buttons to push and shapes to manipulate. I've often wondered why traditional museums - the Louvre, for example, or the Met - don't allow visitors to touch all of the displays. Sure, Renoir's Bathers might end up with a few chocolate stains and that dingyao white-china bowl from the Song dynasty might get a few chips. But aren't those small prices to pay for allowing people a chance to get touchy-feely with the world's best artworks...
...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, the dreamy Provencal mountains of Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only ten years in the grave...