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...Fogg has a well-respected collection of European and North American works, including an impressive Impressionist gallery with a number of Monets. The Fogg also features Jackson Pollack, Picasso, Rembrandt and Renoir, as well as Rodin sculptures and twentieth-century photographs...
Canova is notoriously hard to love. It's not just that his marble carvings, finished to an extreme degree of perfection, run counter to the belief in the rugged, the unfinished and the visibly sincere that descends to us from Michelangelo and Rodin. Nor is it simply that one is anesthetized to him by his progeny -- the horde of slick, sentimental "classic" sculptors whose white memorials populate every 19th century graveyard in Europe. The basic reason is that Canova's assumptions about what sculpture ought to be and do, based on his total, adoring immersion in the ideal...
Given the high finish of his marbles, the roughness of his terra-cotta models comes as a surprise. In the first heat of exploring a motif, Canova worked as quickly and directly, almost, as Rodin, squeezing and knifing the clay to slab out the shapes. On occasions, he could compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...
...wild fears of a power vacuum are probably unwarranted. Judith S. Rodin, dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will assume the post of provost and will be responsible for the ensuing stages of Yale's restructuring process. And the Yale Corporation is expected to appoint an acting president within the month...
Yesterday's walkout follows a planned "academic strike" on February 6 and 7 that the GESO called off after meeting with Judy Rodin, Yale's graduate school dean. Last Wednesday, after talks had failed to resolve the dispute, GESO members voted by a five-to-one ratio to go on strike...