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...Auguste Renoir painted them, Edith Piaf saAuguste Renoir painted them, Edith Piaf sang about them and, most recently, Am?lie did her shopping on them. But icon of Paris though the centuries-old cobblestones of Montmartre may be, they are being removed as part of a council project aimed at turn this historic quarter of Paris into the city's largest "Green Village." To make way for wider sidewalks, cycle lanes and new scooter parks, diggers have torn up chunks of some of Montmartre's most famous thoroughfares, unsentimentally replacing them with uniform layers of tarmac...
...located in today's 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre became a base for economic migrants from the French countryside during the mid-19th century as well as a refuge for poor Parisians forced to the periphery. Its cheap lodgings also attracted plenty of writers and artists such as Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso, and the easels scattered around Place des Tertre serve as a reminder that art still plays an important part in the life of "the hill...
...Renoir and Radiohead? At the “Night at the Busch-Reisinger Museum” event on Feb. 22, the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM) presented striking contrasts like that one in an evening filled with unexpected convergences of the arts. The candlelit Calderwood Courtyard of the Fogg Museum was the nexus of the event, while music and dance performances, docent tours, and hipster tunes mingled...
Unlike such contemporaries as Renoir, Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas (1834--1917) has inspired few legends and has never come to seem larger than life or as colorful as his art. In Edgar Degas: Life and Work (Rizzoli; 343 pages; $70), British Critic Denys Sutton shows why such comparative obscurity would have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures...
...Criterion Collection, the ultra-classy DVD outfit. Now the child is paying tribute to the parent company, with a 13-lb. 12-oz., foot-wide box containing 50 discs of wonderful films once handled by Janus, plus a 240-page, lavishly illustrated book. With important works by Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein and Michelangelo Antonioni, this package really is essential--the perfect starter set for a full film education...