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BENJAMIN WEST: AMERICAN PAINTER AT THE ENGLISH COURT, Baltimore Museum of Art. Period pieces today, these 52 canvases show what made "the American Raphael" (1738-1820) the toast of London and the first American artist to achieve international renown. Through...
...furniture for loyal clients. In the process, he has also built a distinguished reputation. Fellow furniture maker Sam Maloof calls him the "elder statesman" of the postwar American crafts movement; Anne d'Harnoncourt, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, proclaims him "a national treasure." To further polish his renown, a warm and witty retrospective show of his work is now on view at the American Crafts Museum in New York City. "Full Circle" presents 43 of Nakashima's best pieces, from a battered 1944 teak coffee table to a masterly 1983 music stand whose top is a chunk...
Beginning with Alice Waters, the first female chef to gain national renown -- in 1971 after opening Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where she gives a light, decorative California interpretation to the dishes of Provence and Italy -- the best women chefs have stayed away from traditional mamma fare. Newcomer Caprial Pence combines Oriental condiments with European dishes and local products at Fullers in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel; Hong Kong-born Jackie Shen, chef-owner of Jackie's in Chicago, decks out fillet of fish sauteed with papaya, avocado and orchids...
...actors present here whose flaws lead to disaster. Not only do students hide from challenges, but their university refuses to challenge them. Harvard no longer presumes to tell undergraduates what they need to learn, believing they will somehow find the correct education on their own. The University should win renown as the World's Greatest University, as well as the World's Worst Teacher...
Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...